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- pompom246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Too bad Yahoo! Maps has such poor resolution for Europe and many other countries. I'm taking a semester abroad in Paris and I'd love to be able to tag where all my photos were taken for my family back home. Hopefully, like they've said, better maps will be available (really) soon. Otherwise it's a really great addition to an already otherwise great service.
- 0hkk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7just tagged all my photos. they even break it down by subsections of towns on the photo info. really awesome
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9You can do it in google maps then import the locations into flickr using this bookmarklet:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72157594165549916/ - gateway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5so where are the cool gps enabled cameras? :) .. Sony has some usb device that u wear along with you while taking photos, then use their device to connect to usb and d/l the photos, I guess it takes the time stamp from the photos and matches it with the gps cords.. kinda neat but only works with some sony camera's.. the other gps cameras I have seen are FUGLY ..
- Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Adapt to survive. That is what people always say about commercial businesses who suddenly have to compete with freely-available services from companies such as Google. I don't see how third-party businesses should be an exception to that rule.
- eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Offtopic a little, but if you digg this, you really need to digg this;
http://www.digg.com/environment/Free_the_Maps_help_make_public_domain_maps_available_to_the_public
so other geotagging apps can be made. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Here a few tips for people who have already geo-tagged their photos.
First thing you need to do is set your geo-privacy preferances, this can be done here:
http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/privacy
The next thing to do is to tell flickr to look at your exif data when importing and use tags found there:
http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/privacy
Finally tell flickr to start the import:
http://flickr.com/account/geo/import - schumi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For a while I thought Y! was going to let flickr stagnate but here lately it's been coming along slowly but surely. Though I'm still not sure of there strategy with splitting their userbase between Y! Photos and Flickr, doesn't sound like a great plan as far as Flickr goes.
- supremo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have been waiting for this feature to be announced. Awesome, flickr! :-)
What I appreciate about flickr is their openness, non-bloat design, easy but powerful online tools to organize, manage your photos, and why not mention all great 3rd party apps/implementations that exists. - Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3zooomr.com has had this for a while now. Yeah, it looks to be another flickr type of hosting site, but if you are some anti flickr person or are just looking for another social photo sharing site, maybe check it out and see if it's worth your pictures' while.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Awesome. Great addition.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3sorry, second link should be: http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif
- Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Firefox's Adblock with "Adblock Filterset G" blocks the image tiles.
1. Pull up a geotagged photo on the map
2. Click Adblock
3. Add this "New Filter" item:
@@/(aerial|api).maps.(yimg|yahoo).com/
4. Shift-Reload the page, and the map tiles will be there. - lancefisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great! Thanks, it worked. I thought Yahoo just didn't have satellite images for Montana.
- MumbleyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a really nice and easy interface, but as others have said, I find the Yahoo maps to be insufficient to geotag my more interesting photos (Lake Tahoe, Tuscany) which aren't well mapped.
I just recently started using google-earth and picasa to tag my photos and I've found it to work really nicely. I hoping to see them update their Picasa web-albums with some of the ideas implemented here too.
Anyhow, just another thing to try... free and easy! - kshag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No need for me to go to zooomr anymore. Flickr added the last thing that zooomr was able to give me.
- kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Scary, but true. So probably not a good idea for teenage kids to geotag their residences. I do like that fact that flickr allows you to enable privacy preferences for your geotags. I think the search and the drag and drop functionality are pretty nifty, too.
- Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah, I agree, I prefer http://zooomr.com over flickr, but since flickr has such a large user base, I anticipated that most people will just see it as a copy of flickr when it really is much more
- lancefisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For me it really was worth it to upgrade to pro. Heck, I even renewed after a year. You have easy access to all your photos, there are no ads, and you can upload 2GB a month. The time it saves is worth the $25, but you do what you want. Perhaps you can tag your photos, "first200", "second200", etc.
- LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm thinking that once I get my camera fixed/replaced I may get a pro account, but right now I haven't much to upload. It'd be nice to be mapping my already-uploaded 909 photos in the mean time, though.
Looks like I probably just need to edit Findr's XMLHtpRequest post data or response. Shouldn't be too hard. - cvp1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Zooomr has lots that Flickr doesn't have... not only geotagging but their new portals, "zooomrtations" audio clips, and tons of other cool things. Plus they use OpenID!
- newtonapple, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Finally! Let the stalking begin!
- LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, yes, I know I could /pay/ for it. But I'm cheap, you see.
You can actually mess with the photos when non-pro. I tagged all my photos with 'Uploaded by Luca' so I can get a full list. They're just not in my Photostream, Organizr, and batch operations. I could probably mess about with the API to do geotagging, but I'd rather not. - Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The instructions above seem to overcomplicate things with all the URLs and steps.
I just clicked "Organize" and the "Maps" tab. It said I had 200 geotagged pictures (I'd used a geotagging bookmarklet on about 150 of them, and EXIF data from a GPS on 50 of them), and offered to import. I agreed, and it offered dialog boxes about privacy. The whole process took just a couple minutes, and now all my geotagged photos show a new Flickr link in the "More Properties" area of the page.
I was disappointed in Yahoo's map, and only the streets view worked, not hybrid or satellite. Viewing other photos "near" mine worked for popular areas though, such as in front of the Venetian at Las Vegas. - ocellnuri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, if you upgrade to a Pro account all of your older photos will show up in Organize. All of your titles, descriptions, and tags are saved, you just can't see the older photos while you are non-Pro.
- gambl0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad no one uses those services.
Long live flickr - lancefisher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Really nice interface. It was really simple to start geotagging my photos. Good job, Flickr!
- purpleaspi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Pity that Yahoo maps sucks, then. I haven't tried geo-tagging individual photos yet, but dragging a group onto the map is very clunky. The search feature is pretty awful - it can find Los Angeles, but not the Getty Center, for example.
But, that said - pretty damn cool feature! - LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As a non-Pro user, only my 200(ish) most recent photos show up in Organizr. Anyone know of a way to plot them on the map anyway?
- jaredvolkl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Just tried this out and it's pretty cool. I think it adds a unique element to online image storage.
- dreadsword, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I posted this comment on techcrunch, but wanted to air it out here too:
As a “masher-upper” of several of the Yahoo properties that are to be integrated today, I always have mixed feelings when the firms with open API’s implement features that have been done extensively in the mashup community.
On one hand, its certainly their right to progress and add to their core service, and any visibility for niche services (geotagging) is a good thing.
On the other hand, when a creative community springs up around and API and a consumer need to offer solutions (in this case geotagging services), it always seems a little backhanded to see the community’s functionality an ideas “go corporate” - without the community. I know a lot of Flickr API developers will lose a lot of traffic to their properties (now redundant), and that the Flickr/Yahoo tools will include a lot of their ideas and “knowledge equity” - is that how the relationship is supposed to be?
All of that being said, I have no idea how to resolve the issue - its not like once a firm releases and API they have to freeze their internal development.
Thoughts from diggers? - velkr0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0many thanks!!
- Yaak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great idea. Shame that they didn't use Google for the maps. Loving the porno soundtrack to the screencast: http://www.flickr.com/help/screencasts/vol1
- kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Zoto.com has had geotagging for ages.
- fernanprats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Since almost one year ago Panoramio.com is offering geotagging of photos in Google Maps with drag and drop interface. You also can watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feeds.
- zeman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Great work by the Flickr team! Can't wait to add support for photos mapped with the new organizer at Flickrmap.com so people can put a map on their own website or blog and show off the trips they've made around the world.
- gambl0r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is the best new feature eeeeeeever!
- purpleaspi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@GerryNiger: Thank you, thank you, thank you! (See later post :)
- GravyTrain6, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2there is something similar already in place at flagr.com
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