Alrighty Then!

I was invited to Dublin for 2 days.

I departed at around zero degrees with snowfall and arrived at a felt 15degree Celsius more. Had blue sky and a really warm day on friday. Saturday was a bit misty, windy and ~10deg. I took the bus to O’Connell street on both days. Then did the Dublin Bus Tour (with the green busses, make sure you take one with live commentary, this is way more fun than the taped alternative). Stepped off at Guiness Brewery and had the obligatory pint in the Gravity Bar. I returned on saturday.

This also was a good chance to test a GPS-logger (“old” Royaltech RBT-3000) and Geosetter to automatically geocode all photos taken. I then uploaded them to flickr and Google webalbums:

• Geocoding the photos was really easy. Setup the timezone and let it go. Please check the photo on the bridge over Liffey: matching perfectly!
• Get flickr uploader, start and setup. Get the flickr upload button for Picasa and install it.
• The flickr uploader first exports the images, then starts the uploader. You then need to transfer. This takes some time …
• Mark your images in picasa, press upload, set image size, visibility, folder and go!
• Took me quite some time to get flickr use the coordinates in the EXIF-data: “Your account/Privacy & Permissions/Defaults for new uploads/Import EXIF location data” . Be sure to do this before you upload the images. Picasa handles this automatically.

Remarks:

• Picasa sports a simple workflow. Import images, select, upload. Very easy, very straightforward. Map behaves as expected, shows little image previews on the map. The map button is a bit hard to find.
• Flickr is a bit more complicated. Things i didn’t like: “use EXIF” not being the default. Uploading takes more time. Map doesn’t use mousewheel for zoom. Map only shows “one row” of images.

See both versions on flickr and Picasa webalbums.