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I'm addicted to geo-location and geo-tagging now. I cannot stop playing with it. I've geo-tagged my vacation photos from January now and built a small JavaScript application based on the incredible OpenLayers framework to show where I took photos on an OpenStreetMap map or on top of Landsat7 satellite images:
I've finally visualized the GPS recording of the RV Trip with my parents last Winter. Unfortunately, LJ does not allow me to embed the interactive map, thus you have to click on this static one to play with it:
At last, I'm done with editing my vaction photos. A four week trip through California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. 2643 pictures. After sorting and editing, 495 pictures in the large collection. And still 129 photos in the "best of" collection, which can be viewed at my online gallery.
On the final day on the road we went to a mall North of Sacramento and finally found some jeans in the right sizes at Sears. However, we weren't able to get out of the parking space with the RV and had to wait two hours for the owner of the car in the spot left from us.
Sacramento, a city (actually, two cities) along the Sacramento and American river, is the capital of the state of California.
Yosemite Nat'l Park. What a sight!
We went a bit shopping in Vegas again and took off to Death Valley. It was quite windy on the way to the valley. As I feared strong cross winds on the pass, we didn't take the West exit of the park but drove to Beatty instead and took the loop around the park to get to Mojave. My mother was quite PO that it took so long and that we were driving in the dark again, and that my father was driving too long without a break, but one reason we avoided the pass was her fright of narrow mountain streets... We arrived at half past ten, which wasn't that late after all.
Sigh.