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Creating a path from geo-tagged images for use in Google Earth (.kmz)

 
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May 30, 2013 02:43 |  #1

Hi,

Background: So, crossing my fingers that someone knows this. It's not really specific to Canon stuff, but anyway, I have the GP-E2 that I use with my 5D3. I went on a long trip and the logging worked great until it ran out of memory, so I only got the track/path logs for the last half of the journey.

Limitation of Canon Map Utility: Exporting the logged path to Google Earth was direct with Canon's Map Utility--there's a button for it. But unfortunately I cannot find any way to create a path from the EXIF location tags to recreate the remaining paths that were deleted. It will export the photos + locations to Google Earth as a .kmz file, which shows up fine, except the locations are drawn as a path--they just show up as placemarkers in Google Earth.

What I am looking for is a way to create a path in Google Earth that can be visualized from a series of pictures, creating a path connecting the dots from picture to picture in chronological order as if displaying the path log itself.

I've been searching for this online for the last 2 hours. There's tons of programs out there to put the pics as placemarkers in Google Earth, but none that will connect the dots. There are a few scripts and Java source code I found that might do this, but I really don't feel like downloading and installing full on development programs just to run a stupid script or program.

Anyone know of an executable program for Windows that can do this?

Much appreciated. :)


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May 30, 2013 16:24 |  #2

Just thinking out loud....Is it possible to open the KMZ file and then use the Draw tool in Google Earth to "connect" the placemarkers manually?? Then resave as a KML/KMZ file??

Just tried it - it works. But you will have to connect the dots yourself. I dont know of any software that will do it automatically. You might try GPSBabel...its free and does just about ANYTHING with GPX tracks/files.

Good luck...


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