jpg exif gps data into KML

[gulo]

Hello
I recently started to add GPS data into my jpg pictures via Exif. Unfortunately at this point I don't really have any good way to actually use that information. Ideally I would like to be able to see placemarks with my photos in google earth.

I know how to create a placemark with a <img src> tag that points to the photo on my disk (i'd like to keep final kmz files in the same folder as pics so when I copy them to different location they still work). I can just add size tag to make them smaller so they fit into little baloon pop-up in GE.

The problem is that I don't really want to create every single placemark for each picture manually.

Does anyone know of a program (or could possibly make one that would scan a local folder for jpg files, and then extract GPS coordinates from each one a put them into a kml file ?

thanks

[Forkboy2]

http://www.robogeo.com/home/

Haven't tried it, but sounds like it will do exactly what you want.

Matt

[gulo]

thanks
that did exactly what I was looking for (although it does a lot more and hence it's not free

the problem I have now is that RoboGeo will put absolute link into img tag, for example c:\picture.jpg, but I want the kml file to be universal, no matter what the folder is.
I keep pictures and kml file in same folder but when I remove "c:\" it doesn't see the picture. Shouldn't GE look for it in same folder if there is no extra path specified ? This is really confusing me

[GeoGuy]

Hi Gulo, I'm the author of RoboGEO.

The program can output different types of KML/KMZ files. It sounds like you're using the basic KML output. The KML of that option will point to the image's absolute path on your computer

The "KMZ with embedded images" output stores the images inside of the KMZ file, so it won't matter where your original images are located.

The "KMZ for the web" option allows you to specify a URL folder for the images. That's especially useful when you want to share the KMZ with others or when you want to keep the file size to a minimum.

I talk about all that and the pros/cons of each output type at http://www.robogeo.com/home/export.asp.

Hope this helps.

Tim Helton