First Hike With The Nokia N95: Castle Rock Unique Area
I’m currently taking a hiking class and will be hiking every Sunday until May. I have the Nokia N95 NAM with me to record the hike, stream live videos, and take geotagged pictures. The first hike was in Castle Rock Unique Area in Philipstown, NY, which is about an hour and a half north of New York City.
The introductory hike was 2 miles with a vertical height of 700 feet. Introductory was definitely not easy. For the next hike, I need to bring better shoes. My boots were too heavy and it tired me out right after we started.
Recording Hike With Sports Tracker
The hike was recorded with GPS data using Nokia Sports Tracker. Below is a map of the hike showing geotagged photos right on the map. If you would like to know how to do this on your blog, read my guides on embedding geotagged photos and embedding sports tracker data to your blog.
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Streaming Live With Qik
I was also streaming live videos using Qik, but decided only to do it in safer trails because I did not want to get hurt if I lost my footing and needed to hold on to something. You can view one of the videos below.
Geotagging Photos With Location Tagger
I was also running Location Tagger on my Nokia N95 while taking pictures. All the photos were tagged with the current GPS location. Take a look at the photos below and Flickr will show you the location in the photo’s exif data. On the upcoming Nseries phones, this will be done automatically without installing another program!
Thoughts
I was able to record my hike’s path, take GPS-tagged photos, and stream live videos to the internet. It’s good to know that I was able to do all of this at the same time using a device that I carry around every day: my mobile phone.
I know the Nokia N82 was marketed for this kind of usage, but any phone running S60 3rd edition is capable. I don’t want to get too technical with this post so head over to S60 to learn more about it. My N95 NAM also have faster internet connection due to the North American 3G. Streaming live videos during a hike with the Nokia N82 in the United States will be useless.
The next hike for next Sunday is at Popolopen Gorge with the distance of 5 miles and 1,000 feet vertical rise. Subscribe to the Nokia blog feed to watch my progress.
Ninongbrown on 7 April 2008:
i still can’t believe you took a hiking class. but now i realize it isn’t so easy, lol. thanks for the share homie
Ravindra @ Symbian-Life Blog on 7 April 2008:
Hey mark great stuff,me too tried this few days ago but I,m having troublr in uploading pics with the map,I read all your guides but it didn’t work man,So can you check this
http://symbian-life.blogspot.com/2008/04/n82-geotagginghikemessed-up.html
n gimme an advice
Mark Guim on 8 April 2008:
@ravindra Did you tag those pics? go to the tag page and at the bottom there will be a “geofeed.” copy that link and import it to your google maps. for example, this is the tag page for the photos on this page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mackarus/tags/castlerockuniquearea/
Ravindra @ Symbian-Life Blog on 8 April 2008:
Yes Mark,I did exactly as you said but it doesen’t show anything under Geofeed.And I’ve uploaded the photos to flickr through my PC,not directly from fone,So is that the reason?
Mark Guim on 8 April 2008:
@ravindra make sure in flickr settings “Import EXIF location data” says “yes.” Did you use Location Tagger or Shozu?
Location Tagger puts the location on the exif data so you can still transfer it to your PC first and be fine transferring to flickr later.
Shozu requires you to upload the photos directly to flickr.
bloger on 9 April 2008:
tahks for the information. ciao from romania.
@CoachDeb on 9 April 2008:
Ok - THIS Rocks! Total reason to get the Nokia 95 NAM - wow!!! Shweeeeet!!! Now I see why Robert Scoble loves his Nokia phone!
Andy on 11 April 2008:
I’ve uploaded directly to Flickr with my N95 and version 3.0 of the software that send photos directly to flickr from my phone.
I am on flickrs map fine since I used Exif data with GPS locations.
However, when I go to the Geofeed and KML there are none of my photos?
Whats up with that?
ccollins on 24 April 2008:
Mark,
I’ve been using Location Tagger and Sports Tracker on my 6120C (with BT GPS receiver) to document my hikes as well. I upload any photos to Flickr and recently tried to create a Google Map of a recent hike.
Everything worked fine with the Geofeed for the photos, but when I uploaded the KML file for my route, Google Maps broke it up into smaller segments so that the trail doesn’t show up as a single path. Here’s the link if you want to see what I’m talking about:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100388758605380567063.00044b8f689f42e13f1e8&t=p&z=15
Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?