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Jan Cook ISYM 540 – SSII Current Topics in ISM July 9th, 2009. Executive Briefing Topic 3 – Information Systems Technology. geospatial digital cameras and geotagging for the weekend hiker. Why?. You may wish to display you photographs on a digital map layer such as Google Earth,
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Jan Cook ISYM 540 – SSII Current Topics in ISM July 9th, 2009 Executive BriefingTopic 3–Information Systems Technology
geospatial digital camerasand geotagging for the weekend hiker
Why? • You may wish to display you photographs on a digital map layer such as Google Earth, • or upload your geotagged photos, data, and maps to your organization, or share between organizations.
Weekend Hiker:Choice of Internal or External GPS D3, D2xs, D2x, D2Hs, D700, D300, D200, D90 Nikon’s CoolPix 6000
Google Earth Version 5.0 • theOcean Layer • historical imagery • satellite imagery of Mars
Google Earth Pro • Google Earth Pro saves higher resolution jpegs and tiffs 4,800 pixels as opposed to 1,000 pixels • Saves movie files (beyond kml- & kmz files) • Traffic counts -For an additional $200, on US Interstates and highways nationwide and on major and residential roads in major metropolitan areas.
Google Earth Pro Pro offers user-support via email !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Downsides • Invasion of privacy • Theft • Inaccurate images • Old data
Sources: • “Geospatial experts bundles new gps enabled Nikon camera with photo-mapping software” www.geospatialexperts.com April, 2009 • <http://www.digitalpixels.net/2009/04/photo-gear/geospatial-experts-bundles-new-gps-enabled-nikon-camera-with-photo-mapping-software/> • “A Comparison of Google Earth 5.0 with Google Earth Pro 5.0” • geocomm.com February, 2009 • <http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/articles/comparisonofgoogleearth5/> • “Keyhole Markup Language” Wikipedia.com July 2009 • <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole Markup Language> • “Flickr” Flicker.com July 2009, <http://www.flickr.com/map> • “Nokia Beta Labs” Nokia.com 2008 <http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/location-tagger> • “My Sandbox by Amirnoir” Amirnoir.com February 11, 2009, <http://www.amirnaor.com/2009/02/geotagging.html>