Geotagging Flickr photos

27Nov2006 Filed under: Technology, Travel Author: Esme Vos

I just finished geotagging my Lisbon photos and am doing the same for my Amsterdam photos. Geotagging on Flickr is easy and very handy. Log in to your Flickr page and go to Organize. You will see four tabs — one of them is called Map. Go from there.

What I like about geotagging is before you go to a city like Lisbon, before you even decide which neighborhood you want to stay in, you can see the photos taken by other people in that location. The geotagging feature is precise because it is integrated with Yahoo Maps so you can geotag your photos (and see others’ photos) down to the precise street.

What I do not like about Flickr’s geotagging feature is that it is integrated with Yahoo Maps and I prefer to use Google maps.

This is an opportunity for someone to write a good plug in for Flickr-Google maps.

The Wall Street Journal has an article today about geotagging.

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Tom
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 am

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 http://www.locr.com.
dan.b
July 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am

I’m not using locr …
I found this site http://www.trekinu.com much easy to share my albums.
It is very easy to use tools I like the idea and in 5 simple steps you have something to send to your friends or share in your site.
You can check this trek for example: http://www.trekinu.com/viewtrek.aspx?trkid=8h5b5glzsxa1h43

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