Adding Photos to Google Earth

I wanted to attach photos to Goole Earth locations for the public to see. One way to do it is to use the Firefox 1.5 extention called Photo Map.

Once you have the PhotoMap extention installed, click the URL below which will open PhotoMap at the locatioon of my photos, basically as a substitute front end to Google Earth.

photomap://map?lat=-37.81975990831797&long=144.96517896652222&zoom=1&type=hybrid

If you then think "This is cool!" and want to drag your photos into PhotoMap (it's that simple) then you will be prompted to open a free Flickr account which will then compress and host your photos online automatically.

Update: Ok, there's a non-open source implementation of this taken further at Frappr (no E). You can see my corner of the world simply by clicking my Frappr link: http://www.frappr.com/djmer1

A popular Frapper group is: The TWiT team at http://www.frappr.com/twit

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