GPS-Photo Link 5.0 with New GPS Cameras

The GPS-Photo Link software is offered in two editions. GPS-Photo Link Express is designed for avid photographers and business users who place photos on a web-based map or generate web pages and PDF reports from their photo archives. GPS-Photo Link: GIS Pro is for geospatial professionals mapping their photos in a true GIS environment such as Esri's ArcGIS.

Version 5.0 includes:
• Live Map Preview - Prior to creating outputs or reports, users can preview and edit photo locations in Bing Maps. Attributes can now also be edited individually or in batches.
• Advanced Photo Editing - Users may edit, crop, annotate and draw on their photos, as well as add a variety of watermarks using any photo attribute (title, date, photographer, etc.).
• Project Management - GPS-Photo Link keeps track of photos, map layers and other data in project folders, making it easier to access, share and assemble documents relating to a specific job or date. Save your settings in a template for future projects.
• ArcGIS Extension - Users can access the full functionality of GPS-Photo Link from inside the Esri ArcGIS environment.

The GPS-Photo Link software enables photographers to accurately map the locations of photos taken either with a standard digital camera and hand-held GPS receiver or with an integrated GPS-enabled camera. The software correlates each photo with its GPS coordinates and maps the photo to its accurate location on a digital map using online web sites such as Google Earth and Bing Maps or on a map layer in a geographic information system (GIS) such as ArcGIS.

Introduced in 2001, GPS-Photo Link has become the industry standard software for mapping photographs. Applications of photo-mapping software span the full spectrum of business users whose jobs require accurate photographic documentation of objects and features at a specific place and time. These applications include disaster response, infrastructure assessment, asset management, engineering, land management, surveying, utility mapping and law enforcement.

GPS-Photo Link software also comes bundled with the Ricoh 500SE, the Nikon D5000 and soon to be released Nikon D3100. The Nikon bundles include the Nikon GP-1 GPS unit mounted on the flash shoe.

The Ricoh 500SE is a ruggedised, 8-megapixel SLR with built-in GPS and compass, designed specifically for geographic data collection. The Nikon D5000 is a full-function digital SLR with a compact GP-1 GPS unit mounted on the flash shoe. An upgrade from the popular D3000, the D3100 is an entry level digital-SLR camera with a Guide mode that displays instructions for the most basic camera operations for shooting, image playback and editing and the application of camera settings, in the camera monitor.

ok reza - 18/11/2010 - 07:25