making a photomap?

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Hi all...

Would appreciate it if anyone could help me. I've got an upcoming trip and am planning to take lots of photos. My goal is to geotag all of the photos (got this part covered, I think) and then somehow create a map that plots where all of the pictures were taken, along with a thumbnail of each, and some way to link to the full resolution version of the photo. I (think) I even know how to do something like this with Picasa and Google Earth, but then the result is not really a web page - my goal is to be able to share the map with some folks who are not so tech savvy and Google Earth is probably going to be too difficult for them - ideally the resulting map would be a web page, or easily incorporated into a web page - something along the lines of a customized Google Map. I've been Googling for something like this and much to my surprise have pretty much come up empty. Does anyone know of any utilities or web sites that can do this? If necessary I think I'll be able to use the Google Maps Javascript API along with some custom programming on my end to do this, but that's a lot more involved and a lot more effort than I want to go through, especially for something that it seems should already have many solutions out there.

Sounds like you're referring to the html "map" tag.

This Wiki page describes it, and has a working example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map

More details (plus much more about html generally) here:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_map.asp

Afraid not - what I am talking about is not an image map. An image map basically lets you take an image and assign different links to different parts of the image - so for instance if you had an image that was a map of the USA, and you clicked on the area of the image corresponding to California, the link would go to a page about California, and if you clicked on the area of the image corresponding to Texas, the link would take you to a page about Texas.

What I am talking about is something else. Say I go on vacation and take a bunch of photographs - now I've got a bunch of JPG's of my photos. At some point, I encode within each JPG file the latitude and longitude of where that photograph was taken. Now I want to get a map of that area where I vacationed and show an icon on the map at each place where I took the photo. if someone clicks the icon, they'd see a thumbnail of my photo, and if they clicked that thumbnail, they'd be taken to the full size photo. Or something along those lines is what I want to achieve.