*** Please don’t pay too much attention on the marker location. I am faking the GPS position, it is not accurate. It’s just for approving the concept ***
As I continue to experiment the Garmin eTrex GPS + Google Maps idea, I thought it might be userful to show what the map will look like when I finish the trip. I pretend that I will go to Taipei, Taiwan from Phoenix Arizona. Taking my Garmin eTrex GPS with me, I will be traveling to many cities in south Taiwan. Then I will fly to Hong Kong. Travel into mainland China and go to Tibet eventually.

The map will show you where I was and default to the last spot I stop. I hope this to be useful eventually. If it all works out fine. I will be creating an GUI interface allow people to upload their waypoint from their Garmin GPS and download the html file and XML file for their own use. The other idea come after this is to link to the dedicated photo blog page for that spot. This will make the map more userful for travel photographers. It also make the blog more interesting. How many time you have tried to link the geography to the photos you saw on the internet. At least I have tried to locate Rome and Mogolia, but dont’ really have idea where they are.

Currently, my Nikon D70S doesn’t allow me to track the GPS waypoint. I do know Ricoh produce one pricy digital camera, which will automatically record the GPS information into the JPEG file meta data. I hope one day Nikon release the GPS feature or utilities built-in to the Nikond D70S. So all D70S lover or D200 users can enjoy the features.

Keywords: Google Maps, Google Earth, Garmin eTrex GPS, Nikon D70S, D200, Phoenix, Arizona, Taipei, Taiwan

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