Another walk this morning to play with the Trails iphone app and the EveryTrail social network. This rather follows on from what I said about them yesterday. This time, I wanted to integrate photos. Rather than use the iphone camera, I took my main camera along to make things trickier.
This time, every time I saw something I wanted to note, I added a waypoint in Trails and jotted a few words, but in addition snapped a photo with my camera. Getting home, I was hoping to upload the photos directly to EveryTrail, but since it asks for photos of under 1Mb, it seemed as easy to test out the Flickr integration at the same time. I uploaded my photos to a dedicated Flickr set, which, as it turns out, is the thing to do when you went to call them into EveryTrail.
I was hoping that I’d be able to associate each photo with the waypoints I’d added, but unfortunately that option didn’t exist. EveryTrail does let you place your photos on the map manually, but since Flickr only gives EveryTrail read-only access, it seemed a lot to hope that this geotagging would transfer across to Flickr. Further, trying to add the photos to the EveryTrail map using OSX Firefox wasn’t a good experience.
Instead, I manually added my photos to Flickr’s map (as I would normally), and then imported them again into EveryTrail, which immediately knew where on the map to put them. The main map on EveryTrail now shows both my waypoint notes and the photos, but inevitably these don’t match exactly since I added the photo locations by hand. When the locations are very close, it can be tricky to select the photo rather than the associated note (or vice versa).
The next thing to try is using photos from the iphone. Here the locations of the waypoint notes and photos should marry more precisely, and I wonder if that’s going to cause problems. Basically, it’d be nice if EveryTrail could integrate photos and waypoints somehow.
