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Posts tagged "gps"

Mission Accomplished!

January 6, 2010 / Pat Brown / Aerial Photography, Stories, Technology

The balloon launched successfully at 9:36am and was recovered in perfect condition 154 miles southeast of the launch site at 1:55pm! The camera was still taking photos at one minute intervals over 4 hours after the intervelometer was started, and it grabbed this great photo of all of us checking out our baby! I haven’t […]

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digital, gps, mapping, stories

Going UP Tomorrow!

January 5, 2010 / Pat Brown / Aerial Photography, Stories, Technology

UPDATE! 9:36am- Up, up, and away! Tomorrow morning at approximately 8am MST, a weather balloon with my modified Canon SD800is, my SPOT GPS transmitter, and my Garmin Vista Cx will voyage to the edge of space! The idea belonged to my colleagues Sam and Lars, and was soon added to my list of resolutions. After […]

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digital, gps, photography, SPOT, stories

Middle Fork of the Salmon River Follow-Along

June 22, 2009 / Pat Brown / Adventure

Check back at this post each day to see the progress we’ve made as we raft and kayak our way down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River! We launch on Friday, 6/26, take out on Thursday, 7/2, and will then kayak for a few days near Jackson, WY before returning to Colorado. Update 6/3/09: […]

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gps, mapping, outdoors, SPOT

From Blizzard to Summer Bliss

April 28, 2009 / Pat Brown / Adventure, Kayaking, Stories

The weekend began with yet another April blizzard along the Front Range, but ended with warm, sunny weather in the Utah desert! I began Friday (4/17/09) by battling awful road conditions through Clear Creek Canyon and up I-70 and was treated to lack of heat in the van during the blizzard as my thermostat decided […]

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gps, mapping, outdoors, photos, stories, video

Geotagging Photos using RoboGeo

April 24, 2009 / Pat Brown / GPS, Technology

Geotagging is basically the process of associating location with photographs and can be accomplished in many ways. I have developed a process using a commercial product called RoboGEO that not only geotags the photos, but also creates KMZ files that allow the photos and associated GPS data to be viewed in Google Earth. Here is […]

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digital, gps, mapping, photos, web

Digital Workflow

April 23, 2009 / Pat Brown / Technology

I have strived to present the photos, videos, and GPS data from my adventures on this site in my effort to tell my digital. stories. and along the way I have developed a workflow that I typically use. Yes, it is a lot of time, but it is enjoyable and the end result is a […]

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digital, gps, photos

Creating a GPX Trip File

April 23, 2009 / Pat Brown / GPS, Technology

Here is a nice procedure I have developed for concatenating several days worth of GPS waypoints and tracks into a single GPX file. The end result is a compact, neat file that hierarchically contains each day’s track and waypoints with appropriate descriptions. This file can be easily shared and viewed intuitively in most mapping programs, […]

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digital, gps, mapping

GPS Data Recording for a Multi-Day Trip

April 23, 2009 / Pat Brown / GPS, Technology

After some trial and error, I have a nice method of recording GPS data on multi-day trips that is useful both during and after the trip. I typically use this procedure on backpacking, biking, and rafting trips when I will be sequentially moving from one location to another. In these case, I like to know […]

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gps, mapping

Colorado River Follow-Along

April 17, 2009 / Pat Brown / Adventure

I am heading out to raft the Colorado River through Ruby/Horsethief/Westwater canyons at the Colorado/Utah border this weekend, and I found a cool, free website that will allow me to embed a map with my current location into my blog. It is called SPOT Trip Manager, and it seems to be a free service that […]

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gps, mapping, outdoors

Zetec Final Exam

March 16, 2009 / Pat Brown / Stories, Technology, Van

Today marks the second week I have had my Zetec up in running in my 1985 Westfalia! I had already put 300 miles on it, so yesterday I gave it a thorough check out and everything looked great. This morning, I drove it up I-70 in Colorado to go skiing, which was the final exam […]

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Bostig, gps, stories, van, Westfalia
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