Remote, automated posting to Google Maps

This is a quick-and-dirty test of live-mapping photos and content from the field using a mobile phone camera, GPS, Picasa photo tools and Google Maps. In short, I posted photos from my Android from location directly to a map on my website.

You may recall I mentioned this concept in my ONA wrap-up. I linked to Cory Haik's nice tutorial in that post, but I'll detail my experience here. This is not rocket science, and the fact I can figure it out means anyone can.

I took photos at each location along or near the Kern River bike path, tagged them with geo coordinates using the phone's GPS tools, wrote short captions and used GMail to email them to Picasa using a secret email address.

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