Cycling with Handy GPS

iphoto2kml.pl

• ONO, Hiroki
• onohiroki@cup.com
• 2006-12-04

Read GPS data form EXIF of image file that placed in iPhoto album, and generate KML file.

You have to write GPS data into image file by GPSPhotoLinker in advance.

• GPSPhotoLinker: Overview
  http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/

iphoto2kml.pl is a Perl scirpt. You have to install the following CPAN Modules:

Mac::Tie::PList - Parse Apple NSDictionary objects (e.g. Preference Lists)

http://search.cpan.org/~gbrock/Mac-Tie-PList-0.01/lib/Mac/Tie/PList.pm

Image::ExifTool - Read and write meta information

http://search.cpan.org/~exiftool/Image-ExifTool-6.17/lib/Image/ExifTool.pod

Download: iphoto2kml.pl

http://onohiroki.cycling.jp/archives/iphoto2kml.zip

example:

./iphoto2kml.pl --list

You can get the list of iPhoto album.

example:

   AlbumId PhotoCount AlbumName 
      8861     1340   2006-09 CycleOregon
      8862       21   2006-09-08 Portland, OR

The AlbumId of the album '2006-09-08 Portland, OR' is 8862.

usage:

iphoto2kml.pl 'AlbumId'

example:

./iphoto2kml.pl 8862 > portland.kml

You can get a KML file of AlbumId 8862. You can open the KML file with Google Earth.

usage:

iphoto2kml.pl 'AlbumId' 'path for link'

iphoto2kml.pl 'AlbumId' 'path for link' 'path of thumbnail image'

example:

./iphoto2kml.pl 8862 'http://onohiroki.cycling.jp/image/' 'http://onohiroki.cycling.jp/image/thumbnail/' > portland.kml

Generate a link to 'http://onohiroki.cycling.jp/image/DSCN3513.JPG' and use thumbnail image 'http://onohiroki.cycling.jp/image/thumbnail/DSCN3513.JPG'

If you want to upload KML file to Internet, you have to define 'path for link'.