GeoTagging photos with FOSS

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Since I got a crackberry cellphone that geotags images when I take them using its built in GPS, I have become a photo snapping lunatic. Of course one’s lunacy needs some way to manifest itself using FOSSGIS so I am going to decribe here a workflow to enable you to enjoy the thrills of geotagged… Read more »

From the ‘that was fun’ dept…

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By the time a release of QGIS makes it out the door, most of us developers have long since forgotten about it and taken to the green fields of being able to add features again in QGIS trunk (i.e. ‘the fun place’). There is however a kind of sigh of relief to have made another… Read more »

QGIS 1.4 ‘Enceladus’ released

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I just sent out the official release announcement for QGIS 1.4 ‘Enceladus’….lets hope everyone loves it! The QGIS team has done a brilliant job for this one and I can’t wait for 1.5 because things are only going to get better! Read the QGIS Blog for details. I put the standalone windows installer on my… Read more »

GPS Tracker tool in QGIS trunk

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Marco Hugentobler and I have been working on integrating C++ based GPS integration into QGIS core. New functionality There are two parts: – a gps background process implemented by Marco that communicates with a GPS and extracts nmea strings and then propogates them to any listing classes – a user interface, implemented by myself, as… Read more »