I am planning to come up with some example code to convert geostring tag information to KML and GPX formatted information. The KML (or GPX) files themselves do not solve the problem though, since if they are the place where the geographic metadata is stored, it becomes necessary to make sure the files never become separated.

What I’m trying to accomplish directly is more analogous to what EXIF does, embedding the GPS data directly in the file itself so that it is a lot less likely to be lost during transfers or copying.

Taking this as an excuse to inject some microbiology back into the blog, geostrings are analogous to genes, encoding some information, while the KML or GPX file would be more like the expression of that gene, the information being translated into a directly useful product…

Another option would be to create a small application that builds a KML file to store this information. You could use ExtendData to store things like Track, but the other elements are already present in KML. And use the atom:link tag to actually have the reference the file.

This way you could then use any KML library or even Google Earth to do geographic searches and visualization of your geolocated files.

Just browsing the internet. You have a very, very interesting blog.