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Flickr + Yahoo Map = Photo Geotagging
Published by J Shamsul August 29th, 2006 in Web.Tags: Flickr, GeoTagging, Web2.0.
Check your Flickr account there is a new feature in Flickr’s Organizr, check out the ‘map’ tab. So finally Flickr introduces GeoTagging. Good to know those folks at Flickr are still innovating.
GeoTagging is a term best associated with the practice of ‘tagging’ a photo or a blog post (GeoBloggers) with GPS coordinates. The convention established by GeoBloggers uses three tags, example; geotagged, geo:lat=51.2345 and geo:lon=-0.1783. Photos or blog post are associated with GPS latitude and longitude coordinates.
Now, unless you have a GPS chip, with the world map information implanted in your brain, those numbers means nothing to you. It only works if there is a map associated with those numbers.
Flickr on the other hand has implemented a fairly simple way to geotagged your photos. Within your Organizr (Flickr’s photo organizer) there is now a map tab. Drag and Drop your photos to a location and the photo will be tagged with location info such as city, state or country.
You could also explore other photos by locations, by easy navigation within the maps. Check out Flickr blog and these screencast created by the Flickr team, part 1 and part 2.
The maps is powered by Yahoo! Maps. You might see some more integration in the future. Flickr’s API and Yahoo! Maps API, we might see some interesting mash-up in the future?
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For those who are interested in areas, like Malaysia, not well covered by Yahoo Maps, Panoramio can be an alternative.
In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You also can watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.
Eduardo
Thanks for sharing Panoramio with us.
this is cool thing.
Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the “Show in Google Earth” button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at www.locr.com.