Im on a mission...

Howto create kick-ass routes from all your vacation pictures:

1) Install / deploy the following software on your windows machine:

- ITN Converter, better known as ITNConv from http://www.benichou-software.com/
- ExifTool by Phil Harvey from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
- Google Earth

2) Copy all your pictures in a single folder or apply super advanced hacker skills and create a list of all *.jpg files within all subdirectories from your current position (yes, this is command line kung fu in windows, yeah!). If there are spaces within the paths or filenames you are doomed aka my skill was too low to find a quick solution. So i used Total Commanders ( get it here: http://www.ghisler.com ) mass renamer to replace spaces with _

- dir /s /b *.jpg > allpictures.txt

2) Use exiftool to extract all the gps exif data from your vacation pictures and fiddle them into a text filoe, csv style!

- first rename the exiftool-k.exe to exiftool.exe or else it will prompt you for any key after each file process.

for /F %i IN (allpictures.txt) DO "exiftool.exe" -ee -n -p "$gpslatitude, $gpslongitude, $gpstimestamp" %i >> gpsinfo.csv

And yes, this takes quite some time if you were not shy on the picture taking side. There are cool dudes on the web tuning this to improve performance massivly, e.g. here: http://www.christian-etter.de/?p=458 . But again, im too lazy to investigate this right now.

3) Use ITN Converter to open up the beauty you just created:
- GUI style programm starting, use open dialog. If its complaining about format stuff, make sure the file extension is *.csv. If you use the preset from the opening dialog and your pictures have been taken with an iphone you maybe find yourself cruising the south pole, so retry opening with custom presets, e.g. latitude=column1, longitude=column2 and maybe even move the column3 to commentary. Choose Google Earth (*.kml) as export format and hit that Export button.

4) Open the file in Google Earth and wonder how to get a nice movie out of it :D