Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging 80
Thomas Hawk writes "Flickr today launched a mash up of sorts creating a tool in their organizer where users can use Yahoo! maps to geotag their photographs at Flickr. The new feature allows Flickr users the ability to simply drag and drop their photos onto a map, filter their photos by tags in order to geotag, and use interesting search technology to browse photos that have been geotagged on Flickr maps."
Interesting search technology (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm glad to see they decided to go with the interesting technology instead.
Good call, Flickr!
Re:Interesting search technology (Score:5, Funny)
However, I anticipate a slight rise in cases of stalking.
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I also prefer the google maps integration.
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Free
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Flickr and Other Geotagging Photos tools (Score:2)
Visit places you've never been (Score:5, Interesting)
Furthermore, perhaps these photo tourism 3D reconstructions could then be combined with google earth so you could literally browse the planet.
Neato.
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Here's a question for you web 2.0 folks: (Score:1, Funny)
Completely useless (Score:1, Informative)
This could be amazingly useful... if one could just use it.
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Flickrblog entry (Score:3, Informative)
Apparently Safari support is currently broken, but will be fixed shortly.
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Why not use one [geospatialexperts.com]?
I've gotten to play with them a bit. The cameras that support the GPS cards are nothing too amazing. But we are usually using them for geology field work and such to help locate where our pictures were taken when trudging through endless stretches of desert.
Priced like it's 1999 (Score:2)
It's unfortunate that the major camera manufacturers don't work out a standardized interface for addons; something as simple as a serial interface to connect an outboard GPS would be fine, although the ability to use a single type of CF GPS cards would be better.
Of course, interoperability has never been chief on the camera manufacturers' minds; these are the same people that can bar
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For example, if your camera records GPS data, you don't need to keep a detailed itin
Just sync between GPS tracks & timestamped pho (Score:1)
GPSPhotoLinker uses the GPS track timestamps to figure out the closest LAT/LON to where your photo was taken. I'm a mac guy... I know there is software for Win
smugmug (Score:2, Interesting)
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http://maps.smugmug.com/ [smugmug.com]
It isn't quite drag-and-drop, you have to enter latitude and longitude unless your camera embeds GPS information in the EXIF metadata. But it works well, using Google Maps API. It integrates somewhat with Google Earth, too.
They have had this feature for several months now, and have already revved it once or twice.
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Wikimapia.org (Score:2)
For some real geomapping (and a great way to waste time), see Wikimapia which lets you tag Google Maps.
www.wikimapia.org [wikimapia.org]
Yahoo Maps is terrible (Score:5, Informative)
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Note: I use Google Maps constantly as part of my job and personal use.
ask.com's map stuff is *far* superior to Google Maps for the general user. Not only are their maps more up to date (and allow for zooming in further in more areas) but it work
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Try to type in "Tokyo" into ask and get a "nothing found", or "Japan, Tokyo", nothing there. if you scroll there. Well, there is green and blue
The best global map is still google.
For the best local map, it is all different. There are chizumaru, yahoo japan for example, which are superious in detail and information for maps. But for none japanese users, they are kinda uselss (thought the japan maps from google are als
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Is there anyone else?
Er...what? (Score:2)
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Maybe you should turn on javascript
doesn't show local things on the map with pop-up details
It can pinpoint addresses with the popup bubble, but other than that...I agree
doesn't allow you to click to recenter the map
Again, maybe you should turn on javascript
has no satellite photo view
Not sure how to explain this one, but there is very clearly an "Aerial" link on the map.
no combined satellite/roadmap view
I'll agree
doesn't fill the available browser window space
Actually, t
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Perhaps you are confusing different implementations of the API with the 'official' maps page? The sidebar is an option for any mashup a web designer does, and making it disappear on click shouldn't be too difficult, also optional are the controls, markers, default zoom, etc. In addition, a full bleed Google map is pretty easy to make yoursel [leapbeyond.com]
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I'm talking about the space to the left of the map, where it shows your search results, directions, etc. I'm almost positive that's what the person I responded to was talking about. As I said, the equivelant on ask.com maps is easy to hide. Google's doesn't appear to be so easy.
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The Link (Score:3, Informative)
Lack of Wow Effect (Score:5, Interesting)
If and when they release a code snippet to embed these in your own page (maybe they have, I don't know), then this will certainly be a big hit among users (though still not technically impressive). Imagine all the MySpace users who would flood to their service if they could organize their pictures by location, and even by friend's picture collections, and add it directly to their page.
As it stands now, though, this is about as exciting as watching your friend buy last year's hot computer gadget after you've already played with it for a year. They've caught up, but they've not moved ahead.
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Here's my take on it: I really don't care if other services has had it for a year, since I'm using Flickr. But if it's only news for Flicr-users, I don't know why it's on Slashdot. Maybe because they have such a large userbase, and the others doesn't?
BurningMan: GeoTag (Score:2)
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Nice, but limited (Score:3, Interesting)
What I do not understand is, why yahoo can not use the yahoo japan maps which are highly accurte. Seems I have to wait quite some more time before I can start do any geo tagging.
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you can get that here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1574 [userscripts.org]
then auto-convert 'geotags' to the new flickr format.
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http://flickr.com/account/geo/import [flickr.com]
so if google maps is your favourite mapping system you can still use it.
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http://beta.zooomr.com/tagmap?ll=35.79999392988527
We're also localized in over 15 languages, so most of those photos have been actually taken by fellow Japanese people. One of Zooomr's main goals is to represent photos universally, so when confronted with the choice to use Google Maps v. Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps was quite clearly the winner hands down.
-Kristopher (Zooomr Founder)
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Tokyo Int'l Airport: http://beta.zooomr.com/tagmap?ll=35.55275019750131
Not only is that Sat. imagery breathtaking, even Tokyo Tower is correctly lined-up between the map and the satellite images:
Tokyo Tower: http://beta.zooomr.com/tagmap?ll=35.65859512638627 4,139.74545001983643&z=17 [zooomr.com]
That might have been a problem some time ago, but it doesn't seem to be a problem any longer.
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Slooooooow (Score:2)
The whole world map doesn't look like it has many photos on there from the pink dots, but it lists many more in the 'total photos' - so I think it is a little buggy right now. The photos I Just added didn't come up when I tried to narrow the search through the main page either.
I think the site is a little too slow right now - I hope
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Drag them off the map and back into the strip at the bottom.
Another option (Score:1)
We have been working hard on it. Hope you like it ;)
Eduardo
overview (Score:2)
Bullet-time (Score:1)
1. find a landmark (like Eiffel Tower)
2. Draw a circle around it on the map and get as many photos near to the shape as possible, preserve them in the same circular order
3. Now check them, probably many (or some) of them include Eiffel Tower. Discard all others
4. Add them as individual frames to the clip.
Since people around large objects probably tend to take a shot or two of these objects, this idea might