HOW TO SUBMIT WALKS

If you want to participate, just send me (forum@connectedglobe.com) a note and I will contact you with instructions as to what is needed. Basically I need a route file and photos.

If you use your mobile phone, the easiest way of recording the route is with a GPS logger app. This will save your path as you walk and you can send it to me as a GPX or KML file.

The photos taken with most mobile phones will automatically have the time within the image data to position them exactly on the route. If you are using your phone as a GPS then the time on the photos will coincide with the time on the route file.

However, if you are using a camera for photos and a separate device for logging the route, there can be a time difference. It is therefore important to do two things: first, make sure the time on your camera is the same tiem exatly as the time on your GPS device; second, to be doubly sure, take a photo of your GPS device at the same time as marking a waypoint on the GPS.

I personally use the Android app GPS Logger from Basic Air Data, available on Google Play Store. But it doesn't matter what you use as your GPS route plotter as long as it produces a GPX file or a Google kml or kmz file.

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