google just announced (well a couple weeks ago) My Tracks for android.  this is an awesome app for my g1 phone.  (i really enjoy the phone…maybe i’ll make a post about it later).  anyways, this is a good segue into another previous little project…it was this gps/photo tracker using gpx files and flickr…

this was one of my first little web applications i attempted back in 2007.  yes back in the day when i carried my garmin forerunner gps everywhere with me.  now i think it’s collecting dust in a drawer or something.  it basically displayed a GPS track of your movement and tagged where along that track you took a picture.  so you fed in a gpx file and a flickr set number and it combined them to display the track and pictures on google maps.  it was pretty nifty.  nothing fancy.  a little marker per picture using the exif info.  you could click it and view the picture.

anyways, once i got it working i abandoned it.  it was really a project just to try out ruby on rails.  haha i guess it didn’t convince me to keep working with it.  probably because i wasn’t focusing on the framework where i bet it shines.  plus, my current host doesn’t support ruby on rails.  my web app is at http://dennis.notpunny.com.  i’m actually still surprised it’s still there.  i haven’t paid for the host in a year or so heh.  so it might disappear any second.  it’s not very functional to an outside user (i never made a gpx uploader).  but here’s an example from a lake tahoe hike: http://dennis.notpunny.com/?gpx=tahoehike.gpx&setid=72157600521167745&hoffset=4.  yes nothing fancy.