PhotoFusion Confusion

[FHWillAZ]

I've been playing with the PhotoFusion capability and believe I have managed to confuse the application. I'm in a condition now where I cannot Generate HTML ImageMap. When I press the button, nothing happpens. I don't get an error message and I don't get a progress bar. Also, the Refresh button is grayed out.

I have successfully generated HTML using this track and photos before, but now it's stopped working. By "playing", here's what I mean:

1) I've renamed photo files after I first generated the HTML and tried to regenerate the same HTML with the new file names.

2) I've used an application named "Exifer" to change the time stamp of my photos to properly align them with the track time. (My GPS and camera time were off, so I'm trying to fool PhotoFusion by changing the photo time.)

3) When I was able to generate HTML, all of the photos in the directory were not included in the final output. This was after I had changed the time stamps so there could be some relation to that.

I would appreciate any help you can offer. I'll be glad to send the track and photos if that will help you.

On a side note, I find TopoFusion to be a wonderful tool and great fun to explore and play with. Yesterday, I managed to produce a 3D aerial photo that's almost a duplicate of a digital photo I took out on a trail. I'll get them posted and give you a link to them. It's really quite remarkable to see them side-by-side.

[Krein]

You shouldn't need an external program to adjust the time.  Just do it using the timezone offset.  Set it to your timezone (-7 hrs, or whatever), then if you're 5 minutes off one way, change it to 6:55 or 7:05, depending on which was off (GPS or camera).

Also note that Photofusion will only include photos in the directory that are after the start of the track and before the end--so if other photos outside that range they will not be there.

As to the confusion, this does sound strange.  I have seen this happen before, but usually closing TF and starting it again fixes it.  If it is repeatable with your GPX file and photos send a zip file to smorris@topofusion.com and we'll check it out.

Thanks.

[FHWillAZ]

I wanted to report back that I'll have to attribute this problem to "USER ERROR". When changing the time stamp on photos using Exifer, the EXIF headers were getting messed up. I think I was getting too carried away with this exciting capability of placing photos along my GPS tracks and wasn't taking my time to do things properly.

So, I slowed down and got more organized. I started with the original photos again, modifed the date taken time stamp, then successfully had PhotoFusion place them along my GPS track as expected.

The reason I wanted to do this is to place a photo of a trail head at the beginning of the track. I took the photo before the track was started, so I couldn't use your time shifting as described above.

Thanks again for an awesome product!