You know that since I visited the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas 2005, I’ve been banging on about how interesting the world will be when all photos are automatically geotagged and date/time stamped by cameras embedded in all sorts of devices (like phones etc). THIS cool app from labs.live.com (as pointed out by UncleNick) gives a clue or two.
However…
Until the geotagging is automatic we have to add this important metadata by hand. I have done the ‘hello world’ geo tag on nearly everything I can find – including flickr. Well, that just got a whole lot better! Yahoo have added a reasonable drag and drop interface to the Map tab of their ‘organizr’ ajax thingy. It is a bit V1.0 and is driven of ‘Yahoo Maps’ (didnt even know they existed) which have crap reslolution for my part of the world (compared to local.live.com or google earth).
Speaking of Google Earth THIS little pearl from metaload.com works a treat!! – a simple .kml file that grabs nearby photos when the google earth globe stops spinning. Whizz around to glenelg australia and check out (a seemingly random selection of) some of my pics.
Fang – Mike Seyfang
technorati tags:geotag
2 responses so far ↓
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Nick Hodge
// Sep 6, 2006 at 10:36 am
Coolio!
Been using GoogleEarth to get better lats:longs: for all the Normandy photos Liam and I took.
If you incorrectly geotag, the geotag-fan-boys rip you a new one!
Nick
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mike seyfang
// Sep 6, 2006 at 12:17 pm
So that begs the question, where does Flickr insert the lat: long: data when you use their UI on the organizr???
I dont see it in the tags or description like the old handraulic days.
Fang