The Dgrin World Tour

[Ben]

So I promised I would show you guys the fruits of my labor relating to the general call for photos first. As some of you may have discovered already, we released a new feature called smugMaps that allows you to use Google Maps to map out galleries and such.

The Dgrin World Tour can be found here:
http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=735427

I really, really want to thank all of you who submitted photos. You guys are amazing photographers, and made it easy to put together a bit of sightseeing for the world. :clap

On that note, I also want to sincerely apologize to a lot of you too. As you can probably tell by the sudden silence from my end about a week ago, I abruptly ran out of time to do as much as I wanted on those maps. There are a lot of photos in those two threads I still wanted to add, I just ran out of time to choose them, find the geo-data and add it, and add the copyright information. I really did want to hit around 100 photos, and you guys provided enough awesome examples for me to do so. I just ran out of time around 61 photos. So if your images didn't get included, it is very likely that I wanted to and couldn't. :cry

This will be included in a press release and will probably get a decent bit of attention online. Thanks again! :thumb

[Andy]

awesome, ben :clap :clap

and, smugmug's eye on nyc, with photos all mapped and everything, can be seen right here (http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=734406) it's a collection of photos of nyc taken by me (www.moonriverphotography.com) and shay stephens (www.shaystephens.com)

smugmaps rawks! i totally dig the "timeline" feature, that's going to be really cool for photo-trip reports!

[Ben]

oh yeah... one other thing. Most of us here at smugmug have been working straight for about 36 hours now (and sleep deprived beforehand from a long week of working hard to get it ready). If you see any glaring mistakes, please let me know... :rofl

[dragon300zx]

Hmmm. Ok since you asked. One thing I noticed (this is a great feature) is that when you click on a tear drop to see the photo it seems to recenter the page so that the photo is at the top under the header and you cant see it. I'm using IE 6.00(lots of numbers), windows xp media center, 21" monitor, 1152X864 res.

[Higgmeister]

That's really cool Ben, nice job. I checked out several of them and most were right on. #5, Vatican Square seems a little off, but close.

Cool site,
Thanks for the hard work,
Chris

Just a note: I use Firefox (ver. 1.0.1) and it worked fine:D.

[Ben]

one more thing. If you go to this gallery:
http://ben.smugmug.com/gallery/735427

You can find a Google Earth feed at the bottom. If you would prefer to browse this map in Google Earth as opposed to Google Maps, you can choose that route. (Which is really, really cool)

[4labs]

Just a minor thing, when you click on the photos Ben's name appears on all of them..

[4labs]

OOps.. I see you added names on teh photos I meant when you hold the browser over the pic Ben's name comes up...

[gluwater]

:clap Wooohooooooo!!!!!!!
One of my photos is finally being used for something. Well, this and my friends wedding invite, but this is much cooler than that.

Good job Ben :thumb

Nick

[Nir]

So I promised I would show you guys the fruits of my labor relating to the general call for photos first.
Ben, beautiful job! quite a surprise for me because i didn't follow the thread. if you need a few shots of crete and israel, let me know - i saw the map was empty in these areas and i can helpout if you want.

[gus]

Thats pretty cool :thumb

[BigAl]

Ben, beautiful job! quite a surprise for me because i didn't follow the thread. if you need a few shots of crete and israel, let me know - i saw the map was empty in these areas and i can helpout if you want. Likewise, Africa is empty.

[Richard]

Neat stuff, Ben. :thumb:thumb

I am not sure I understand the plans for the mapping feature. Will all pics that have the geography data entered be searchable by location? Will that apply across users as well, so that if I search on, say, Paris, France I will see everyone's pics from Paris? Or will search be confined to an individual user's galleries?

No rush for an answer...get some sleep first. :D

Cheers,

[Ben]

Neat stuff, Ben. :thumb:thumb

I am not sure I understand the plans for the mapping feature. Will all pics that have the geography data entered be searchable by location? Will that apply across users as well, so that if I search on, say, Paris, France I will see everyone's pics from Paris? Or will search be confined to an individual user's galleries?

No rush for an answer...get some sleep first. :D

Cheers,
You can now enter goedata for your photos using "Edit Photography" in the photo tools menu. Any gallery with geodata will have a "map this!" button. So you can map out any gallery of your own exactly like I just did with the World Tour (all I did was upload photos that had geodata and then link you to the map that is automatically created).

[dragon300zx]

Ben's map is just a sample of a new feature. You can now do this with your own galleries the way he has done with this one.

[Richard]

You can now enter goedata for your photos using "Edit Photography" in the photo tools menu. Any gallery with geodata will have a "map this!" button. So you can map out any gallery of your own exactly like I just did with the World Tour (all I did was upload photos that had geodata and then link you to the map that is automatically created). Well, you can, but I'm afraid I can't seem to get Google to recognize any address in Spain.:scratch Not even a generic entry like Madrid, Spain. I am guessing that Google maps doesn't cover Spain yet, though they do have satellite photos. Maybe I'm going to have to move to Sunnyvale.:giggle Anyway, I think I now understand what the feature is meant to do. Thanks.

[wxwax]

What great fun! Nice job.

[Phil U.]

I had noticed the silence but I now understand. I'm really impressed with this new stuff. Really cool.

As for this gallery - the "Timeline" looks like someone spent a lot of time "ocean hopping" hehehhehehe... :rofl

Cool stuff - and I'm very happy to have mine displayed amongst others' great works!

[asd]

Well, you can, but I'm afraid I can't seem to get Google to recognize any address in Spain.:scratch Not even a generic entry like Madrid, Spain. I am guessing that Google maps doesn't cover Spain yet, though they do have satellite photos. Maybe I'm going to have to move to Sunnyvale.:giggle Anyway, I think I now understand what the feature is meant to do. Thanks.

Try using Google Earth - I was trying to place some shots in Germany and Google Earth overlaid streets and towns where Google Maps did not. So at the least, if you know about where you're going you can zoom in/out and move around to find what you're looking for in Google Earth.

The new smugmug maps feature is great!

[Jeremy Hall]

Cool stuff as always Ben (& Crew). Thanks for including my Edinburgh Castle photo :):

[JimM]

I notice Asia is lacking... I have some photos of China and the Beijing area, but they are film. Would you like me to digitize a couple of them for use? Shoot me a PM if so.

[snapapple]

Ben,
I noticed that my photo of La Sagrada Familia does not have the city. It is in Barcelona, Spain.

I also have two more shots for you.
This one is the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu, in Peru.
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/34248960-L.jpg

This one is the Santorini Island, Greece
http://snapapple.smugmug.com/photos/34244423-L.jpg

[snapapple]

Oh, sillly me. I just went back and read your earlier post where you said you ran out of time. Thanks for including my shots and for adding my name on them.

I was just trying the mapping feature on my photos in my smugmug galleries. I found that I could grab the map and slide it East all the way from California across the ocean to Europe. It changed to the composite of a the satelite version with a map overlay. I saw all the countries by zooming out. Then I clicked on the approximate area and started zooming in. I was able to map a lot of my travel shots this way. It's really neat.

While doing this I peeked into Ben's World Tour gallery. It was my first look at your project. Very nice indeed. I thought it was an ongoing thing that you could add too. It would be nice if you did set up a gallery that way. All the dgrinners could contribute travel shots and we could try to get the whole world covered. Just an idea. Great job.