Picasa Web Albums is needed to host geotagged pictures from the Internet. I'm glad that I tried it. It generated a KML file with each geotag's embedded global coordinates. And that's great because I plan on sharing these generated KML files with others. Otherwise, if I hosted them from one of my computers, should I share that file, their mapping software would try to located the photo (at the specified location, but on their computer), Google Earth would return a white box with red "X's" in them (image file not found).
So I took the liberty of getting them named in Google Earth. That was something that I wasn't able to do in Picasa Web Albums because I didn't have the photo thumbnails overlaid with the Buckeye Trail's tracks there. Most of Whipple's on-road intersection pictures are missing. I had KML placemarks for when I uploaded them from Picasa's desktop application last time. But I'm lost as to where they went? The Robot had a fresh Windows re-install in November. So if for some reason, they were on the desktop application only... they're gone now. But I can't see how that is. Being a computer guy, I know that those photos must have had a physical location somewhere. 107 geotagged maintenance photos of Whipple Section - Buckeye/ North Country Trail's apertures and intersections are just gone.
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