Sunday, October 12, 2008

Attach images to your tracks!

If you want to document a moving event like the Critical Mass, or you just want to have a sweet memory of your trip, it's a good idea to attach photos to your track.

Here is the track of Critical Mass Budapest on 22 September, 2008:



To attach photos to a track, first you must upload them somewhere on the internet because we don't store images. Just upload them to your favorite image sharing site! Our favorite is Picasa so we have nice integration with it but you can attach any images available on the internet to your tracks.

So simply click the "Attach Picasa image to this track" or the "Attach image from URL to this track" link to start the attaching process. A new window opens up and you can select the image to attach (by entering the url of the image, or by selecting it from your Picasa albums). You must point at the location where you took this photo. It's easy to use our location selection tool: If you move the mouse over the map, an arrow follows it on the track. The arrow never leaves the track, it is always at the nearest point to the mouse so you don't need to click a precise location on the track. If you see that the arrow is at the place where the photo is taken, just click on the map and the location will be selected.
Of course you can add a comment to the image if you want.




Note: Please consider the copyrights when attaching images from the internet. All the images attached to our sample tracks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Creative Commons License

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