2010-06-06 - Walking @ Herperduin

During our weekend away to Heijen we spent the Sunday hiking around an area called Herperduin. We hiked for about 10,5 kilometers during which we did a very nice geocache. I can't say much about this geocache, because I don't want to spoil the experience for people who are still planning to do this one, all I can say is that it's quite original and that the surroundings are very beautiful. During the hike the weather seemed to turn from sunny to windy & rainy. Just when we where thinking about quiting the geocache and heading back for the car the weather cleared up again, we ended up having a great and (mostly) dry walk.

Bellow you'll find a GPS track log of our hike:

Geotagged photographs added

As you can see I managed to add a few of the geotagged pictures I took with my new Panasonic TZ-10 to the embedded Google Maps widget. One of these three pictures I actually geotagged by hand, because when I took the picture the GPS on my camera wasn't turned on yet. As it turns out adding geotagged pictures to an embedded Google Maps widget isn't hard to do, just follow these steps:

Take the pictures with a camera which automatically geotags the pictures (like the Panasonic TZ-10), or geotag the pictures yourself.
Upload the pictures to Picasa Web using the Picasa photo editor.
Visit the newly created online photo album and download the automatically created KML file via the "View in Google Earth" link.
Open this file in Google Earth and export it from there to your hard drive.
Upload the exported file to your website and add it to the "mosmap" tag in your blog post (assuming you use Joomla with the Googlemaps plugin installed).

Please note: if you want to show multiple KML files in one embedded Google Maps widget you can use one "mosmap" tag with multiple kml files like this:

kml[0]='http://www.yourdomain.com/kml-files/file1.kml'|kml[1]='http://www.yourdomain.com/kml-files/file2.kml'|kml[2]='http://www.yourdomain.com/kml-files/file3.kml'.

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