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HOWTO GEOCODE YOUR PHOTOS AND SEE THEM IN VIKING

1) Synchronize your camera's clock with your GPS clock. If your camera's clock doesn't have a seconds value you can change, you might try setting the minute value just when the minute changes.

2) Activate the track log on your GPS.

3) Get outside and take some pictures with your camera while making sure your GPS has reception. If you forgot to turn your GPS on or forgot to bring it when you took a picture but you know where you took the picture, you can make a waypoint with a name of the format "YYMMDDhhmm", representing the time the picture was taken, to record where you were at that time.

4) Get home and download your pictures and GPS data. You can download the GPS data several ways. The first is using gpspoint to download from a Garmin GPS:

gpspoint -p /dev/ttyS0 -dw -dt -of 2004-04-02-trip1

Where /dev/ttyS0 is the serial port the GPS is connected to.
If you don't have a Garmin GPS, or if you don't feel like install gpspoint, you can use my version of gpsbabel with support for gpspoint files. You can use gpsbabel to either translate the GPS data from a format you already have the data in or download it directly from your GPS reciever. A typical command line would something like this:

gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpspoint -F 2004-04-02-trip1

5) Launch GPSPhoto.

6) You must now bring your photos into GPSPhoto. Either drag them (or the directory containing them) from your favorite file manager to the list on the left of the GPSPhoto window, or use the buttons below the list to find them.

7) Do the same for your GPS data file(s), dragging them to the list on the right of the GPSPhoto Window.

8) Click the "Execute" button, and choose a location to save the gpspoint file containing the waypoints for your photos. Then click OK to write the waypoints to this file.

9) Open Viking and open both your original GPS data file and your image waypoint file just created.
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	3	1) Synchronize your camera's clock with your GPS clock. If your camera's clock doesn't have a seconds value you can change, you might try setting the minute value just when the minute changes.
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	5	2) Activate the track log on your GPS.
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	7	3) Get outside and take some pictures with your camera while making sure your GPS has reception. If you forgot to turn your GPS on or forgot to bring it when you took a picture but you know where you took the picture, you can make a waypoint with a name of the format "YYMMDDhhmm", representing the time the picture was taken, to record where you were at that time.
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	9	4) Get home and download your pictures and GPS data. You can download the GPS data several ways. The first is using gpspoint to download from a Garmin GPS:
	10
	11	gpspoint -p /dev/ttyS0 -dw -dt -of 2004-04-02-trip1
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	13	Where /dev/ttyS0 is the serial port the GPS is connected to.
	14	If you don't have a Garmin GPS, or if you don't feel like install gpspoint, you can use my version of gpsbabel with support for gpspoint files. You can use gpsbabel to either translate the GPS data from a format you already have the data in or download it directly from your GPS reciever. A typical command line would something like this:
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	16	gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpspoint -F 2004-04-02-trip1
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	18	5) Launch GPSPhoto.
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	20	6) You must now bring your photos into GPSPhoto. Either drag them (or the directory containing them) from your favorite file manager to the list on the left of the GPSPhoto window, or use the buttons below the list to find them.
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	22	7) Do the same for your GPS data file(s), dragging them to the list on the right of the GPSPhoto Window.
	23
	24	8) Click the "Execute" button, and choose a location to save the gpspoint file containing the waypoints for your photos. Then click OK to write the waypoints to this file.
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	26	9) Open Viking and open both your original GPS data file and your image waypoint file just created.