I'll be posting a full gallery of photos from the trip soon and expect to see some interesting extras.  I've been working hard over the past week to deal with the huge collection of GPS data I logged over the three weeks I was in the UK.  My AMOD AGL3080 GPS logger was running (nearly) every day of the trip and collected over 550MB of nema text logs.  At the moment I can't find a program capable of managing all of that GPS data successfully.  I'd like to extract some elevation profiles, walking mileage, speeds, etc.

While I continue searching for a tool to do that, I've been working on my own piece of software.  Using Jeffery Friedl's Geoencoding plugin for Lightroom, I tagged all of my images with the GPS coordinates of the location where they were captured.  Over 1900 images now have location information embedded in their metadata.  The next step was pretty obvious, drop all of those photos into Google Earth and view them on the globe.  There are a few paid software packages out there that can handle the generation of a Google Earth kml or kmz file, but none of them supported the kind of customization that I was looking for.  I laid out the plans for my own program and started working.  I'm nearly finished with the first version and so far it's working great.  There are a few bugs that need to be squashed, and maybe some improvements to the overall functionality of the program, but all-in-all I'm pretty proud of my work.  Expect to see my Google Earth kmz posted here in the next few days.