About 3 weeks ago I shared a few images I took of my workplace at the Port Of Long Beach. Longshoremen unload massive container ships coming in from all over the world, hovering 20 ton steel boxes over their heads to get the job done. Around 40% of all imports in the United States come through the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles every year. Everything down there is huge and heavy, limbs and fingers are being lost all the time. The longshore industry have some of the highest fatality rates in the United States. I spent my break capturing a few videos and photos of work getting done on the docks. The Nokia N82 really got some great footage.
Here is a video I shot of a 40 foot steel container being taken off a ship and landed onto a semi-tractor. After the video was taken I was able to use the built in video editor and add the title you see at the beginning of the video. There was a lot more I could've done as far as editing goes but didn't have the time because it takes some time to render.
The media below is using Flash, which isn't supported by some RSS readers. View full website if you don't see the media.
check out another video below...
The N82 and the xenon flash did great for some of the night shots you'll see in the slideshow below. A few of them I didn't use the flash because we're really not supposed to be taking pictures because of "security" issues, so I had to be more cautious. There was already adequate lighting so it wasn't really a problem.
Just for the hell of it I added a geotagged map below so you can get an idea of the geography of where the ports are located. Use the navigation buttons on the top left of the map to zoom into the blue thumbnails and check out the photos.
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If your interested in reading more about geotagging, check out this article. To see even more images of work at the ports, click here where you'll find more media that I have hosted at Share On Ovi. Learn more about Ovi, Nokia's free photo sharing service. Have you started using Share On Ovi to host your media?
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Question: I have N82 on AT&T in the US (Washington DC). "My Position" does not seem to work at all on Nokia Maps. Like right now its showing the dot on top of our house, while I am 4 miles south at my office. What gives? Any ideas?
hey viipottaja. bummer you are having problems. try clicking options, then "my position" see if anything changes. does it find you with google maps?
I tried sending some pictures from my N82 Black to FlickR to see them appear on a map.
Everything went well, except that the position of the pictures on the map is a 100 miles more south.
When i choose "show on map" on the phone, the pictures show in the correct area.
Is there something wrong with FlickR not reading the tags written by the N82?
Does anybody else have the same problem as I do?
Hi JeremK....
It seems as though Flickr is having problems reading the data which is weird. I've never seen this problem, although I don't use Flickr maps very often.
I think I discovered where the problem comes from.
I have a picture that has these coordinates:
Lat: 48; 56 ; 15,77
Long: 1; 54; 42,68
I found this when doing a right click on the picture that was saved on my computer, then Properties->Details, to get all information on the picture.
In FlickR, the pictures are displayed at
Lat: 48
Long: 1
And I'm sure about that.
So either my Phone doesn't save the coordinates correctly (and that's why in Windows, i see 3 values seperated by semicolons, and not a value that should be 48,123456)
Or else FlickR doesn't recognize these coordinates properly. But why does it work for everybody else?
Hi Mike,
what do you use to upload pictures and put them on googlemap? Is it Shozu with Picasa?
I really don't like FlickR and would like to use Picasa instead. (or even Ovi if it could display pictures on maps, and if it were available in France).
I use Shoze and upload them to Flickr. Then I take the Geofeed from flickr and import it into Google Maps. Picasa works fine I just haven't used it yet. Ovi can't display pictures on a Google map yet to share with others.
If Picasa is working for you then use that. It sounds like Flickr isn't reading the data.
I found out somewhere on a forum (can't remember where, maybe on FlickR groups) that as my phone is in French, the decimal separator is "," and not "." as used in english speaking countries.
This is why FlickR truncates my Geotagging information and doesn't keep any value after the comma.
Shozu with Picasa doesn't send the geotagging information :(
I'll need to find a way to change the decimal separator in the phone (i found a link for this today, at the same place where i read about the decimal separator, but don't have the link anymore).
Anyway, just to let you know Mike, so if somebody else comes and asks for help with the same problem you know what to answer! :-)
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