More Kml files…
I have added some more KMZ files into the KML Page (look up!) These include a camel ride on Cable Beach, the drive to Apollo Bay, proof that you can visit Shelly Beach and a kayak and a boat trip from Broome as well.
Enjoy.
Entries Tagged as 'gps'
Geotagging in Flickr
A friend dropped past earlier today and asked me how I get flickr to put photos on the map… The irony was that I could only vaguely remember… but I did find it. So here it is for everyone to enjoy again.
http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy
Automagically import GPS information as geo data
Some cameras can store GPS (location) coordinates in a photo’s EXIF header. If you like, Flickr can use that data if it’s available to place your photos on your map automatically.
Shall we import that information when a photo or video is uploaded or replaced?
Yes please, that would be lovely.
Nokia Sports tracker Widget
Below is the new Nokia Sports Tracker widget (care of Nokia and Allaboutsymbian). It hooks into the Sports tracker logs. This merges the data inc photos that are up on your sports tracker account.
In order to view the Nseries Widget you need JavaScript and Flash Player 9+ support
And as you can see it works. But here is the problem. Now I have to upload my photos to flickr, panoramio, picassa, the track files to my blog and remember all the passwords and locations for all of these things.
The example (on putting this up) is a flight across australia from Broome to Melbourne. (The KML of which is in the kml page of this blog)
Does this work, yes, is it a pain to maintain everything. DAMNED Oath.
New page added :-)
If you look in the top navigation on the site you will notice that I have added a new page. Called KML’s it is designed to be a repository of Kml files that I make 🙂 The files are made either via my Asus R2H or my Nokia N95 8GB.
Firmware Installed….
Now for the fun part.
Yes the firmware installed, and yes the backup worked… but Nokia still has work to do. A whole pile of my applications didn’t reinstall properly. Divx Player, Ybrowser, s-tris 2, gmail, twibble and pac man for example had to be reinstalled from the app manager.
One of my apps just didn’t install at all, that being palringo which I use as my gtalk client.
Now see I am what I would think was a fairly high end user, but this is a pain for me. I have to now resintall all the apps from the sis files in the app manager and I have to then go to all of the trouble of moving the folder structure around to what I had and what I liked.
I use the key codes to launch apps most of the time (it is plain faster). For those of you that didn’t know this. When ever a menu is open say applications for example, if it is the third item across just press 3 and the app will start. Saves a lot of navigating once you are in a folder.
Now I am having to reinstall my maps as well, as the firmware overwrote my beta2.0 maps file. But my maps and places are still there which is good.
BIG WARNING… Assisted GPS gets turned back on! This is am not happy with at all. (Settings, General, Positioning,Positioning methods). I don’t use it, I don’t really need it. I find the gps gets a fix fast enough most of the time and I don’t have a data plan. They are just way to expensive in Australia at the moment even for the short calls that AGPS makes. I use the gps on my phone every day, it starts to add up.
One of the improvements I have noticed is that the Satellite Status in Postioning is much improved. It is now visible with a better outline of the signal strength. This used to be really hard to see even indoors, now it is really clear.
This of course is not in the change log, so make me wonder what other “improvements” have been made…
The only other thing that is a bit screwy is NGage got a little confused. I now two versions of Ngage, the trial and the full version. Very strange. Obviously the firmware doesn’t have the full release of the ngage in it… whoops me thinks that was an oversight.
Took me a bit of hunting to find the new auto rotation feature, so here it is….. settings, personalisation, display, rotate screen.
More to come as I keep installing stuff and finding what else is annoying me…
– Update
ShareOnline like maps reverted to the old version and I can not work out how to get it back on the main screen. Not a no deal situation, but annoying.
