Linux.com: A Geo-Located Photo Album in Five Easy Pieces

[ Thanks to lh8 for this link. ]

"Open standards, and openness in general, enables people to combine a variety of technologies in new and interesting ways. For example, using a camera with Exif support, a GPS receiver, the Google Maps API, and Perl, PHP and JavaScript, Mike Whitton created a Web-based photo album in which the photographs are automatically placed on a map at the exact location they were taken. Let's take a look at how this is done.

"The project was inspired by, and is loosely based on, Tim Vidas' work, with numerous additional refinements..."

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