Flickr got maps - good time to GeoTag!
August 29th, 2006
Two interesting news for today:
First, Flickr introduced some mapping feature for geotaged picture. You can see where these picture has been taken. Of course, visualisation is done through Yahoo Maps, which is less accurate (outside U.S.) than GoogleMap, but that’s a good start, and probably a big incentive for Yahoo to correct this soon.
Of course, this feature is nothing really new, but it’s nice to see in integrated. Note that “Pikeo” is an Orange project that intent to do the same kind of things, but not as smooth as I would expect it…
The bad side seems to be that you need to do an extra step, even if your photos are already geotagged. You need to “import” them (go to “organize”, then “map”). This step is probably not needed and useless.
The other issue seems that YahooMaps seems to contains a lot of errors, as you can see on this snapshot….
The other good news of the day is the announce that I am involved in the “mobup” project since some monthes now. Mobup is a free open source Flickr uploader. Now mobup haves some geotagging capacities: if you have a connected GPS to your mobile phone through bluetooth, Mobup will add Geotags to this. Of course, the geotagging picture capacities of J2memap are based on Mobup…
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