MapPoint, GDIPlusX, and EXIF Metadata
Over at Geeks and Gurus, Steve Bodnar has been blogging about Fox Forward. If you haven’t seen his blog, take a look for some more insight into Fox Forward.
I loved Steve’s session on MapPoint. MapPoint integration might be my first session-to-realworld application: If not for production, for curiosity. (A Fox Trails experiment might be second.) Most of my VFP experience has been with municipal data (parcels, properties, buildings, addresses, etc) and MapPoint offers some interesting possibilities.
Bo showed us how we might embed our own custom EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata into JPEG files using GDIPlusX. I’d like to experiment using a JPEG of a house as a portable data file, storing the house’s address as EXIF metadata and then using MapPoint to show me where it is on a map.
I’ll keep you all posted with my progress!
I'm a Quant Technical Specialist (Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence), with expertise in business analysis, data modeling, and data integration. I have extensive experience developing vertical and integrated desktop, Internet, and BI applications spanning municipal, clinical, and financial industries.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Hi Tod,
It was great to meet you at FoxForward. I was very impressed with your Data Warehousing session. I’m sure all the AFUG members will enjoy getting to hear you speak on that tonight.
I’m glad you got something out of the GDIPlusX session. If you are planning on storing location information within the image, be sure to check out the EXIF tags for GPS information. They are listed in the “imageprops.scx” in the samples folder.
Have a safe trip home!
September 11th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Thanks Bo, I’ll be sure to have a look!