For those of you who have the geotagging data, latitude and longitude, in your photo's EXIF, and wonder why they don't show up on your flickr geotag map, you should check out this link:

http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif

It seems to be a "hidden" setting that tells flickr to automagically read your EXIF data and place the tagged pictures on the map. Unfortunately, it does that only upon upload/replace. Your old photos will not be moved to the map :-/

Like µsli I bought the Sony GPS-C1 GPS receiver the other day. It's a little device that tracks your current position every 15 seconds. You can then copy this data to your PC and have all your fotos geotagged. What does that mean? The exact geographical location where the picture was taken is being saved right within the picture! So for all your holiday pictures, road trips you will be able to tell exactly where your pictures were taken. The result can be a very cool map like this:

The green dots represent places the pictures were taken, you can click them to see them. I just got my GPS-C1 and hence have no tagged photos yet. But now to the actual reason for writing this blog entry. The GPS-C1 logs it's data in a propietary format calld NMEA (*.log files) which has luckily been reverse engineered.

To convert from different formats for saving routes/tracks/waypoints there is a great software called gpsbabel. It lets you translate from and to virtually every format. I was in the situation where I had to convert about 100 files from *.log to *.gpx (see GPX). So here is a bash shell script that will batch convert all .log files in a directory to .gpx files:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls *.log`; do
out=${i%%.*}
gpsbabel -i nmea -f $i -o gpx -F $out.gpx
done

Put this into a file, say "convertall", in the directory where you have your .log files and just execute:

./convertall

For each .log file you now have a .gpx file with the same name in the GPX format.

If you try to update your M600i's software you will most likely use a software
called "update service" from Sony Ericsson. There are some pitfalls
which you should know about:

• You need to have Internet Explorer open in the background while you're doing the update
• You should make Internet Explorer the default browser during the upgrade process (I know, it hurts)
• You should try the backspace key on your phone where the installation instructions advise you to press the C button
• You must hold the C/backspace button down while you attach the USB cable

With each project I'm working on, my urge for svn repository statistics rises. I want to know how what happened in a repository over the last months! Commits, lines of code, new files per day, month, user? Isn't there somthing like that out there? With a lot of fancy graphs and pie charts? No? Really not?

I haven't found anything, but I can't imagine there's statistics tool for subversion repositories? If you know of anything, please tell me about it :)

Apart from that: Enjoy spring and have a nice weekend. I'll keep it on the low today, as I have been playing streetball 3 hours a day over the last few days..

While working with eclipse on OSX and Linux I have encountered a strange bug where the workbench window is incorrectly moved so that the window's title disappears. At least on OSX, this renders the window unmoveable and unusable. 

To fix this problem, go to your workspace and descend into the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench directory. Open the file workbench.xml and find a line that looks like this:

<window x="-25" y="-3" width="1142" height="904">

As you see, for some reason the window was moved out of my screens visible area, indicated by the negative x and y values. Just change these, relaunch eclipse and continue work :)