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and flickr have launched geotagging of photos which looks pretty good and very easy to use. i haven't actually got time to try it out yet - too much other stuff to catch up on (i had to try one photo - i have added the one in the last blog post to chelenham) and it seems to be just a case of drag and drop any photo you want to geotag onto a map from the organiser section of flickr... let me know what you think if you try it out. if geotagging sounds pretentious, all it means is searching for photos by place. geotagging is clearly going to be much better set up for the US where the details on maps are so much better than europe - certainly no detail of streets etc at the moment for london for example.
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I geotagged all my greenbelt photos. The process was pretty easy, but I've no idea if I placed them correctly since it's hard to find the racecourse on the street maps. I'll probably go back soon and try to find it with the satellite view, but that's much more time consuming.
It's definitely a good addition to flickr and opens up lots of possibilities for showing places over time, peoples' travels, etc. It becomes a much more powerful storytelling tool.
I'd heard it was coming, and was hoping that they'd have a lot more detail in the UK. It'd be very cool if people could place their GB photos on a map of the site and then visitors could explore the festival by moving around the map and seeing how it developed over time...
Posted by: James Stewart | August 30, 2006 at 03:20 PM
yes - looks like we hit the map not too far from each other but they do need more detail if it's going to be any use i think. you can put longitude and latitude in when you edit a photo but i'm afraid my commitment to the map doesn't stretch that far!
Posted by: jonny | August 30, 2006 at 05:29 PM
For those who are interested in areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, like UK, Panoramio.com may 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
Posted by: Eduardo Manchon | August 30, 2006 at 11:31 PM
It's cool, I like it and I'll possibly use it for holiday/travel snaps. But, to be honest, I'm struggling to find the time to upload photos to Flickr as it is.
Posted by: fernando | August 31, 2006 at 12:01 AM
If it wasn't for the flickr iPhoto plugin I wouldn't have any pics on flickr. Just as well it's just one click now. It's a shame the resolution in the UK is so poor when Google maps is so good. Oh that Google had bought Flickr rather than Yahoo!
Posted by: Talkrhubarb | August 31, 2006 at 12:18 AM