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DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 User Guide
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Tagging an Image
Once you successfully tag your digital images to a GPS log file or track file, you can view the
points at which the photos were taken on the map in your DeLorme program.
Before you begin, you must download the GPS log file or track file and digital photographs
to your computer. See Receiving a Track From Your Third-party GPS Device
for information
on using the Exchange Wizard to transfer files.
To Tag an Image
1. Click the GeoTagger button on the toolbar to open the GeoTagger Wizard.
2. Select Images and click Next.
3. In the Photo Directory box, type the path and file name for the folder (not specific
images) on your computer where the images are stored.
OR
Click Browse to search for the folder on your computer.
4. Under Time Zone, select the time zone where you were when you took the pictures.
See GMT Time Zone Information for a table of time zones by state.
If Daylight Saving Time was in effect (second Sunday in March through first Sunday
in November), select the Adjust for Daylight Saving Time check box.
5. Under GPS Data, select Track or GPL File.
6. If you selected Track
, the list of track layers in the Draw tab displays in a tree menu.
Click the plus sign to expand the tree menu, and click the track. You can select only
one track at a time.
If you selected GPL File
, in the GPS Data box, type the path and file name for the
file or click Browse to search for the file on your computer.
7. Click Next.
The Image list displays the images that will be tagged. Click an image to preview it
in Image Preview window.
8. Under Time Offset, if the time on your camera differed from actual time when you
recorded the data, calculate the offset
, type the actual time in the Matching GPS
Time text box.
9. Click Next.
10. Select how you want to place the image on the map.
• Hyperlink–A MapNote with a hyperlink to the image displays on the map.
• Embedded–A MapNote with a thumbnail image hyperlinked to the image
displays on the map.
• Symbol–A camera symbol with a hyperlink to the image displays on the map.
11. Click Next.
A message displays telling you that you successfully tagged your images. Click
Finish. When you view the GPS log file or track on the map, you can see where the
images are tagged.
OR
An error message displays; usually this is because the timestamps for the camera
and the file or track do not match.