Folium

Adding the track of my bike ride on a Folium map

Having markers of videos and photos taken during my bike ride is cool and all, but how about having a track of the bike ride itself? All my bike rides are registered on Strava, the cycling and running app. Strava has an API for developers, but it requires connecting via OAuth 2.0 and knowledge of the API. I decided to go an easier route: because I’m Strava Premium member, I can download the GPX track of any ride, including my own.

These .gpx track files are of the same XML structure as we saw embedded in video files in my last blogpost. I can just open the file and use almost the same Python code to read the locations.

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By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, ago

Photo locations, marker icons and displaying photos on my map

When I was finished last week with creating my video location map in Python, I thought “shame I can’t plot photo locations”. That’s because my Fuji X-T30 camera doesn’t store GPS info. When I bought the camera I assumed every modern camera had GPS tagging, so I didn’t even checked that feature. Too bad. But I also made some photo’s during my vacations with my humble iPhone 8. And it does have GPS tags. So let’s plot some photo locations.

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By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, ago