For assignment B, i chose to do Geo tagged photos using Google maps. This was quite a lengthy process getting this assignment finished. I firstly went about having a look at different maps that people had made on Google Maps, and exploring the different APIS that had been made using the Google Earth interface. My original idea was going to make an API and embed that on my blog so that everyone could use it, but this turned out to be way too difficult. There was too much lengthy code and much that needed to be digested and understood to pull this off! So i went back to square one and decided to use Google Maps to create a narrative using photos of my overseas trip that i did in 2007. My first thought was how i was going to use these travel photos to create a narrative that was entertaining, so i came up with a few ideas about how the story was going to unfold. The process of selecting a bunch of photos from over 3000 that were taken while overseas was also a challenge, i went through all of them and selected ones that would identify with the story and put a visual image to the narrative that i was telling. I selected my images and then uploaded them into Flickr, i created a new set and went to work on Google Maps, locating these monuments on the map and tagging them with the images. It was very time consuming finding each place on the map and tagging it, but it was worth the hours. After i had located all the places on the map, had written the narrative and tagged all the photos i went to work on creating links for all the images, so they could be viewed in Flickr. 3 or 4 images i used were not taken by me, but i searched for a couple through creativecommens.org which was very handy, i have linked them so there is no trouble with copyright or anything. The narrative is pretty straight forward, there is a tool bar on the left hand side that allows you to guide yourself through the narrative, starting on the top and working your way down the list. I have also included links, inside each individual window that will take you to a linked close up shot of each monument in the narrative, so you do not have to waste time zooming in. The one element that troubled me was creating these links so they would open up in the same window and not in individual ones, i could not figure out how to do this… i looked up some code but everytime i pasted the code into the HTML window in Google Maps, it would automatically erase it when i saved the project. Oh well it still works well, just not a neat as i would have liked.
Here is the link enjoy. Assignment B
