[pct-l] Looking for Photos

[craigstanton at mac.com (Craig Stanton)]

Google Earth is your friend.
The PCT trace that someone made keeps me busy every lunch time, trawling up and down, seeing the sort of landscape it covers. It'd be excellent to have annotated points along the route, pictures from ground level, showing water supplies, camping spots, vegetation, anything. The placemarks can contain any HTML so you'd be free to put in as much detail as you had for each place.
If you have this data (i'm thinking photos and approx lat longs) but no Google Earth or time to convert it I'd defintitely offer my servcies. I'm a big GE junkie and would gladly spend my time creating the links, if only I knew what goes where. When I get around to buying the data book I might make a start on it and put photos in when I complete the trail.

~Craig

On Thursday, March 23, 2006, at 04:24AM, Mike Saenz <msaenz@mve-architects.com> wrote:


>I've been rolling an idea around in my head about a useful web site: A
>map with hot links to photos, data, water report, etc. for at least all
>the points listed in the Data Book. Digitized USGS topos are available
>for all of California from Casil ( http://casil.ucdavis.edu/mapsurfer/
>).
>
>Just click on the map and see photos of the trail, it's mile marker,
>closest water locations (maybe linked to AsABat's site) and any other
>useful info available.
>
>Not so much a collage of hiker pics, but photos of significant trail
>conditions, junctions and stuff like that.
>