Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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I was socializing this idea on the train ride home today. I’ve long had this application called JpegHammer that is mainly a showcase for a PhotoLibrary component that I wrote and was thinking of a cool way to integrate it with Virtual Earth to add GPS coordinates to photos (as well as view them).
My main motivation in writing PhotoLibrary was to have access to a Strongly Typed set of EXIF properties in JPEGs etc. Till a few days ago I had no reason to support GPS data cause there was no good way to get them into the photo. Well now with Virtual Earth and inspiration from Nikhilks’s Photo Map I decided it was high time to read EXIF GPS data and see if I could make my own Virtual Earth Hack (with help from viavirtualearth).
Right now all I do is located a selected photo that already has GPS data on a map using VE. The hardest parts were converting from Sexagesimal to decimal for Long/Lat, finding an HTML control (thanks again Nikhilk) that I could use in my WinForms app to render VE, and finding a sample jpg photo that contained GPS coordinates.
Next step is to allow you to browse the globe, and set the GPS location for a photo based on map data from VE, and save that in the JPEG (and eventually XMP) file. This is cool.