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(Left to Right): Kyle Brodziak, Sam Gagner, Robert Nilsson and Andrew Cogliano share a laugh at last year’s Skills Competition. Photo by Andy Devlin/Edmonton Oilers.

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Source:Edmonton Oilers Skills Competition, Powered by McDonald's Coming January 4th

Oilers prospect Jordan Eberle scores the game-tying goal with five seconds left in the third period (photo: Getty Images)

OTTAWA — Canada reache…

Source:Oilers prospect Eberle puts Canada in Final

The Edmonton Oilers returned to the ice for the first time in 2009 on Friday, in preparation for a meeting with the Dallas Stars Saturday night.

We spoke with a number of players, including injury updates on both Ales Hemsky and Marc Pouliot. …

Source:Hemsky, Pouliot injury updates and more

Whitby Dunlops defenceman Don Sanderson passed away early Friday morning due to head trauma suffered after his helmet came off in a fight during a senior hockey game on December 12 in Brantford, Ontario.

On Friday afternoon, several Oilers pla…

Source:Helmets in hockey: Oilers players comment

I recently spent a couple of weeks in Hawaii. As I planned for the trip I decided that one of the things I wanted to do was geotag my photos. Several weeks before I left ATP indicated that they would send me a ATP Photofinder to review. The weeks went buy a couple of emails were exchanged but no test unit arrived. After giving up on ATP I went to a local store and attempted to order a unit but was told that there would be a six week delay for delivery. I am not sure where the unit was being shipped from but the last time I waited 6 weeks for delivery of any product was the mid-80s. Eventually I resolved myself to the fact that I would have to mark the locations on my Garmin unit as waypoints and manually enter the coordinates. Not a lot of fun.

A week or two after I returned home, the endurance junky sent me a link to the GPS Photolinker. According to the site the

GPSPhotoLinker can be used to save location and GPS position data to a photo. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit while you were taking photos can be linked, and saved, to the photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state, and country annotations into the metadata.

I was able to load my GPS tracks, including waypoints and scroll through each picture manually adding the latitude and longitude to the EXIF metadata. I was able to geotag almost 200 photos in 15 minutes which would have taken hours manually. When the photos are uploaded to sites like flickr and Everytrail, the photos automatically appear in their proper location. While the level of detail in parts of Alberta is poor on Google Earth, it is fantastic in Hawaii. Below is a screenshot of some photos from a hike on the Pololu Valley Trail in Hawaii. The waves breaking on the beach are visible, in other photos you can see the waterfalls.

The Photolinker also allows the automatic batch geotagging of photos by comparing the time on the active GPS track to the time recorded by your camera. To simplify the process, set the time on your camera and computer to match the time on your GPS. To test the Batch tag, I went for a walk through Bowness Park snapped some photos, used the Photolinker and uploaded the results to Everytrail. Drag your mouse across the track to see the uploaded photos.

Each photo, in only seconds, was accurately geotagged. The downside, Photolinker is designed for the Mac. I have not found a similar program that works with the PC. Bottom line, if you have a Mac, a camera, and a GPS device already you do not need a device similar to the ATP Photofinder. Remember, devices like that from ATP and Sony will not help you find your way out of the bush.

The Photolinker is currently under development and free to download (but donations are appreciated and recommended). The only issue that I had using the program was that sometimes I had to drag and drop the photos and track as using the upload buttons sometimes caused the program to shut down, but it is after all under development. If you are looking for more information on geotagging, see my post Automatically Geotag Photos.

Source:Geotagging Photos with Photolinker

Springfield, MA – The American Hockey League announced today that Springfield Falcons goaltender Devan Dubnyk has been named the Reebok/AHL Player of the Week for the period ending Nov. 16, 2008. In three starts, Dubnyk was 2-1-0 with a 1.30…

Source:Dubnyk named AHL Player of the Week

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Following a tough 5-2 loss at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs on the heels of a seven-game road trip, the Edmonton Oilers stepped back on the ice Friday for a spirited practice in anticipation of Saturday’s clash with the Colorado Avalanche. …

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The Edmonton Oilers announced today THE EXPANSION of their annual “Shirts Off Our Backs” fundraiser in support of the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton.  ATB Financial has partnered with the Oilers this season to make the program avail…

Source:Oilers Continue Support of Christmas Bureau Through "Shirts Off Our Backs"