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03/30/2014 12:07:15 PM · #1 |
This isn't necessarily a photography-related question, but there is a photographic component to it. At any rate, someone here might be able to help point the way to what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance.
In some of my previous lives I traveled quite a bit, and the routes between destinations were often as interesting as the destinations themselves. I'd like to be able to take a map and highlight the routes I've taken, color-coded by trip and/or method of travel. Once I've got that sorted I'd like to tag different locations on the map with photos taken there, much like the feature that Google Earth provides.
This is only for personal use -- no desire to post online or share at all. Just something for posterity. I imagine there's a very simple solution to this, but I haven't found it yet. I'm hoping to get this all documented before I forget some of the details... which of course I already have.
Thanks a lot for any ideas. |
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03/30/2014 12:46:07 PM · #2 |
| Don't know what sort of features you're looking for but astonishingly, MS Streets and Trips has a pretty easy interface, which lets you chart exact routes on it. |
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03/30/2014 01:08:00 PM · #3 |
Thanks, Johanna. From what I can tell, that only covers North America, and I'm looking for a worldwide mapping system. Also, I'm not interested in planning anything (sadly I don't think I'll be going anywhere anytime soon), but more retracing my steps.
I know iPhoto allows you to "pin" photos on a map. That's basically all I'm looking for, but with the added ability to also draw color-coded routes. Nothing crazy. There must be something for this. |
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03/30/2014 01:16:24 PM · #4 |
You know that you can actually do this in Google Earth, at least, sorta.
Use the path tool (it's under rulers) and then save the path. |
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03/30/2014 01:25:17 PM · #5 |
| Thanks, Cory. I was wondering if that might be the best way. There's a ton of functionality there that I haven't begun to explore. I'd like to trace the exact roads and train routes, but perhaps this is possible. Worth some investigation. |
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03/30/2014 01:53:58 PM · #6 |
Why not open a picture of a map in Photoshop and just draw the routes on new layers using your tool of choice? You can add text anotations and export the new composites as separate images.
Then, if you have Acrobat or can author in HTML or something you can place links on your map images to connect to further text or your photos. |
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03/30/2014 03:23:56 PM · #7 |
This may not be what you are looking for, but an idea just the same: when my youngest was going to high school, one of her projects was to make an 'interactive' map. What she came up with and worked quite well was maps of different countries as part of html pages (no web, just the page development which can then be looked at on a browser) with a table of contents on the left which was just clickable buttons to the other maps. Then on the maps themselves, she created 'hot spots' so when you moused over them either a picture or information or both popped up on the screen. Her points of interest related to her Social Studies and History courses, but the concept could be applied to any subject matter.
She never put these on the web. She placed all the files in a sub directory and the main page in the root and book-marked the main page in a browser. The project is still used and added to in the high school library now 12 years later.
I am sure for your purposes, routes could be added as well fairly easily.
Message edited by author 2014-03-30 15:24:57. |
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03/30/2014 05:05:51 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
This may not be what you are looking for ... |
... but it's an excellent description of what I meant in the second part of my suggestion -- thanks for the explanation. A lot of people don't realize that the same code which runs a website can easily run a self-contained local project like this. There are plenty of free HTML authoring tools which can make the coding less complicated.
For that matter, you can set up links in Microsoft Word, and probably in Apple's current document editor and OpenOffice as well -- you just select some text or a picture and create a hyperlink. There is a pretty good explanation of how to do this in Word at the Smashwords.com digital publishing site (download their free style guide). |
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