Here is a Google map with embedded video and images.

I had to build it by hand. That includes the purple path I where I sketched out the route that I took.
Why is this so, when I have an N95 and an internet link????

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I want a new camera app for the N95 that hooks into the GPS.

• Pictures and video are all Geotagged,
• Records audio and Geotags that too.
• Easily uploads to Google maps (or Flickr or whatever) and 'pins' all the media to the map.
  
• Talks to the Map program so I can dial up an image in the photo browser, and ask the mapping program to plot a route to the Geotag of the photo.

A bonus would be if the program saved images in Raw format too.

A pic with my new cam...

A Ricoh Gx 100

flower

Entry for September 22, 2007: And finally...

This is the last of my posts on the APEC nonsense that we suffered a few weeks back.
I’ve built one of these new fangle Google maps so that you can ‘wander’ around and see where the videos and photos were taken.
The pins can be clicked on and contain videos and photos.
The purple line is my route.

Click here to visit the Google map site.

There were cops on foot, cops on cycles, cops with a water cannon, cops riding motocross, and if not for the equine flu outbreak there would have been cops on horse back.
The only thing missing was cops on roller blades!

Where the heck did all these cops come from?
The tourists were in seventh heaven as there was a cop from who they could ‘ask for directions,’ every couple of meters or so.
That is unless an unfortunate tourist took a photo of THE FENCE and then the cops would swoop in and make the visitor delete the last couple of shots in the memory.

I travelled into the city on a bus, and over heard a family talking about attending the protest. I heard the mum describing what the protest was about and one child said ‘mom I don’t want them to use the water canon on me.’

This is the last of my posts on the APEC nonsense that we suffered a few weeks back.

I’ve built another of these new fangle Google maps so that you can ‘wander’ around and see where the videos and photos were taken.
As with the previous one, feel free to zoom in and scroll around within the window. The pins can be clicked on and contain videos and photos.
The purple line is the route that I took.

If the pins don't appear, click here to visit the Google map site and view the map there.

View Larger Map

There were cops on foot, cops on cycles, cops with a water cannon, cops riding motocross, and if not for the equine flu outbreak there would have been cops on horse back.
The only thing missing was cops on roller blades!

Where the heck did all these cops come from?
The tourists were in seventh heaven as there was a cop from who they could ‘ask for directions,’ every couple of meters or so.
That is unless an unfortunate tourist took a photo of THE FENCE and then the cops would swoop in and make the visitor delete the last couple of shots in the memory.

I travelled into the city on a bus, and over heard a family talking about attending the protest. I heard the mum describing what the protest was about and one child said ‘mom I don’t want them to use the water canon on me.’

Entry for September 20, 2007: Continuing the APEC protest march entry.

The €˜demonstration€™ convened out the front of the Town Hall, where one elected representative had remarked earlier in the week ‘cage Bush, not Sydney.’
There were ‘a thousand and one’ cameras on and around the street. Nothing happened without a lens examining and recording the event.
Cops went €low tech€™ with periscopes, the TV guys were STILL lugging around shoulder bending monsters, and everyone else had a phone or a €˜point and shoot.
It was a bit weird seeing all the cameras arcing out over people’s heads, to peer down at what ever was the ‘interest’ of the moment.

This is a video featuring some of the people that made an effort to communicate their support for a variety of issues in entertaining ways.
The bizarre thing is, that Sydneysiders are so self absorbed, that there was never a chance that events were going to get out of control.
Sure, if the issue was with sport, or a patch of beach there would be trouble. But global warming, or fair trade.
Come on, that\u2019s someone else\u2019s problem!

The city seemed to be deserted for the whole three days. What a master stroke. Give everyone in Sydney a holiday, and they\u2019re all off to clog all the arteries exiting the city.
For such a nice city to live in, a lot of people are desperate to get out when there is a holiday in the offing.

Continuing the APEC protest march entry...

The ‘demonstration’ convened out the front of the Town Hall, where one elected representative had remarked earlier in the week ‘cage Bush, not Sydney.’
There were ‘a thousand and one’ cameras on and around the street. Nothing happened without a lens examining and recording the event.
Cops went ‘high tech’ with periscopes, the TV guys were STILL lugging around shoulder bending monsters, and everyone else had a phone or a ‘point and shoot.’
It was a bit weird seeing all the cameras arcing out over people’s heads, to peer down at what ever was the ‘interest’ of the moment.

This is a video featuring some of the people that made an effort to communicate their support for a variety of issues in entertaining ways.
The bizarre thing is, that Sydneysiders are so self absorbed, that there was never a chance that events were going to get out of control.
Sure, if the issue was with sport, or a patch of beach there would be trouble. But global warming, or fair trade.
Come on, that’s someone else’s problem!

The city seemed to be deserted for the whole three days. What a master stroke. Give everyone in Sydney a holiday, and they’re all off to clog all the arteries exiting the city.
For such a nice city to live in, a lot of people are desperate to get out when there is a holiday in the offing.

Entry for September 18, 2007: APEC march

Welcome to Sydney. Famous for its policing which is either over zealous or non existent.

Initially I wasn’t particularly fussed about this group of politicians holding a meeting in Sydney.
But then it became apparent that that our government officials were taking this little gathering wayyyyy too seriously. To the point were they were actively discouraging people from making their opinions felt with a public demonstration.
For months our officials have been talking up potential violence, blowing our taxes on fencing us out of a chunk of our own city, buying water cannons, and digging up an astounding number of police to line the footpaths.
A hundred and fifty million dollars spent on security, that is able to be breached by a comedy sketch show posing as a Canadian delegation.
I can't believe that NSW tax payers are prepared to accept such incompetence and oppression.