Geotagging
- Garmin Adds Cameras to GPSMAP 62 Series
- Garmin seems to be adding cameras to a lot of its top-line handhelds: now it’s the turn of the GPSMAP 62 series, which will get the five-megapixel-camera-equipped 62sc and 62stc units in the third quarter of 2011. Adding the camera…
- Pentax Announces GPS Unit for Its Digital SLRs
- Pentax already makes a compact digital camera with built-in GPS (see previous entry) so their announcement yesterday of a GPS unit for use with some of their digital SLRs is not too surprising. The $250 O-GPS1 GPS unit works…
- Fujifilm FinePix XP30 Reviewed
- Photography Blog has a review of the Fujifilm FinePix XP30, a rugged pocket digital camera with built-in GPS. The review cites some problems with both the camera’s ruggedness and its GPS. “Putting GPS on the camera is a great…
- Two GPS Cameras from Panasonic
- Two new point-and-shoot digital cameras from Panasonic with built-in GPS, announced in January, are available this month: the 14-megapixel travel compact ZS10 or TZ20, which I presume is a successor to the ZS7/TZ10, and the 12-megapixel ruggedized TS3 or…
- Macworld Reviews Casio’s Geotagging Camera
- Macworld has an extensive review of the GPS-equipped Casio Exilim EX-H20G. “The EX-H20G also has some of the best in-camera GPS features we’ve ever seen, thanks to its intuitive map interface, points-of-interest database, real-world location names (not just raw…
- Casio Exilim EX-H20G Geotagging Camera
- I was wondering what had happened to Casio’s digital camera with built-in GPS, which had been announced last year at CES and was scheduled to be released last fall (see previous entry). Turns out that in the interim it…
- Cameras with GPS from Canon and Pentax
- A couple of compact digital cameras with built-in GPS have been announced at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Japan this week: Canon’s PowerShot SX230 HS ($350) and Pentax’s Optio WG-1 GPS (pictured; also in black), which…
- The Privacy Implications of Geotagging
- Via many sources, including Tim O’Reilly, here’s a New York Times article about the privacy implications of geotagged photos, which implications generally boil down to whether the person taking said photos with a GPS-enabled camera (usually a smartphone like an…
- Why More Cameras Don’t Come with GPS
- On the New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog, Rik Fairlie asks why more digital cameras don’t come with GPS. “[C]amera makers say they haven’t adopted widespread use of GPS radios in cameras because it’s expensive — it can add almost $100…
- Eric Fischer: Locals vs. Tourists
- Eric Fischer won’t stop. Following up on his Geotaggers’ World Atlas (previously), he’s separated out the geodata generated by locals from that generated by tourists — locals being defined as people taking pictures of the same city over a…
- The Geotaggers’ World Atlas
- The Geotaggers’ World Atlas is Eric Fischer at work again: this time he’s taken geographical data from Flickr photos, determined the speed at which the photographers were travelling based on their photos’ timestamps and geotags, and plotted them on…
- Using Photographs to Beat GPS Accuracy
- Liz Gannes reports on Michael Liebhold’s argument that you can get better-than-GPS accuracy by using photographs: He said the most promising technique is to build [a] model of the world using photographs, some of them geo-coded automatically, and the rest…
- Leica’s Geotagging Camera Is a Rebadged Panasonic
- Leica has announced the V-Lux 20, a compact digital camera with a built-in GPS (Digital Photography Review, Photography Blog). It’s essentially a rebadged Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 (TZ10 outside the U.S.), similarly equipped with an onboard GPS, the announcement of…
- A Geotagging Roundup: Aperture 3, Casio Exilim EX-10HG
- Aperture 3 was released earlier this month; the new release adds the geotagging features we previously saw in iPhoto ’09. (Previous versions of Aperture required plugins — for example, Maperture.) An important difference, noted by CNet’s comparison of the “carryover…
- Geotagged Flickr Photos in Bing Maps, Street View
- Geotagged Flickr photos are now available via Bing Maps and Street View, and Rev Dan Catt, late of Flickr, bemoans the fact that that while Google and Microsoft had to use the API, “Yahoo, who has direct access to all…
- Geotagging Art
- Geocoded Art geotags public-domain paintings of identifiable locations. The site requires that “a) the image is a recognizable depiction of [a] specific location (not just ‘Tuscan countryside’); and b) the image be in the public domain,” but does not include…
- Sony Digital Camera Has a Compass
- Sony has announced a digital camera, the evocatively named DSC-HX5V, that adds a compass to its built-in GPS. Based on my experience shooting with a GPS logger, direction is a useful bit of data to add; the question is…
- Geotagging Apps for the iPhone
- Macworld reviews four geotagging applications for the iPhone. Now the iPhone geotags its own photos — if you take a photo with the iPhone’s built-in camera, it can be automatically geotagged. But these applications turn the iPhone into a GPS…
- Twitter Supports Geotagging
- Twitter geotagging is now officially available, though only through the API — which means that third-party applications can do things with it, but it won’t show up in the web interface. It’s off by default; users have to enable it….
- GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr Mini
- Shipping next month, GiSTEQ’s $69 PhotoTrackr Mini geotagger promises improved Mac and RAW compatibility, along with extra eensy-weensyness. Press release. Via Engadget. Previously: GiSTEQ GPS Loggers Now Mac-Compatible….
- Three Kinds of Geotagging Users
- In Directions magazine, GeoSpatial Experts president Rick Bobbitt writes about the camera options for geotagging photos. Interestingly, and appropriate to an industry publication like Directions, he divides users into three groups: GIS professionals, non-GIS business professionals, and recreational photographers. Most…
- myTracks 2.0
- You may recall that iPhoto ’09 supports geotagging, but requires manual input or a camera with a built-in or connected GPS unit — GPS loggers aren’t supported. Enter myTracks 2.0, a 10€ program that supports a number of GPS…
- Windows Driver Available for Nikon GP-1
- Nikon’s GP-1 geotagger, which I reviewed here last March, has a USB port for connecting directly to a computer, but apparently the (Windows-only) driver had been delayed. It’s available now, though. Via Nikon Rumors. Previously: Still Another Nikon GP-1…
- Twitter Working on Adding Location
- Twitter is working on adding location to tweets: We’re gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate…
- Macsense Geomet’r GNC-35 GPS Receiver
- Jon Bauer’s review of the Macsense Geomet’r GNC-35 GPS Receiver first appeared a year ago and has been reposted in several locations, but I only stumbled across it now on the Flickr Geotagging group. The GNC-35 connects to higher-end…
- Derrick Story on Geotagging
- A couple of articles by Derrick Story about geotagging went up on Macworld’s website back in April: one that looks at four automatic methods of geotagging, and one on using the geotagging features of iPhoto ’09, taking manual geotagging as…
- ‘Accidental’ Maps from Geotagged Photos
- New Scientist: “David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analysed the data attached to 35 million photographs uploaded to the Flickr website to create accurate global and city maps and identify popular snapping sites.” Here’s…
- The Geography of Buzz
- The Geography of Buzz, a project of Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab, “set out to analyze the unique spatial and social dynamics that are created by the arts and entertainment industries in New York City and Los Angeles.”…
- Still Another Nikon GP-1 Review
- Have you read my review of the Nikon GP-1 GPS unit? You have? Good. Now here’s another one for you, by Christian Løverås. He compares his geotagging workflow using a separate GPS receiver to his workflow with the GP-1…
- Review: Nikon GP-1 GPS Unit
- Introduction For several years, I’ve been keeping half an eye on the GPS logger category — these are GPS receivers that record geographical coordinates that can later be applied to digital photos. But I never got around to trying one,…
- Nikon Digital SLR Geotagging Roundup
- Here’s another review of the Nikon GP-1 GPS unit (via the Nikon Digital Flickr group). The GP-1 is facing some pretty stiff competition, according to Nikon Rumors — at least as far as Nikon digital SLRs with 10-pin PC…
- Another Nikon GP-1 Review
- I spent some of today taking some test shots (finally!) with the Nikon GP-1 geotagger attached to my D90; I hope to have a review for you soon. Meanwhile, John Biehler’s review covers a lot of the ground I…
- Review: Maperture
- Maperture is a free geotagging plugin for Aperture, Apple’s pro-level photo management application. It allows you to click on a map (Maperture uses Google Maps) to assign geographical coordinates to your photos. Maperture worked as advertised on two batches of…
- Sony GPS-CS3KA
- Richard notes the arrival of Sony’s new GPS logger. “After essentially creating the category of GPS loggers for photo geotagging with the GPS-CS1 in 2006, Sony inexplicably let the product languish for three years with only minor upgrades. They…
- Geotagging on a BlackBerry Storm
- Joe Francica tries uploading geotagged photos from his BlackBerry Storm to Flickr; difficulties ensue (“it wasn’t a straightforward or intuitive process”)….
- One Hundred Million Geotagged Photos
- Here’s one way to measure geotagging’s progress: how many Flickr photos have been geotagged? Answer: about a hundred million — or around three percent of the total (via)….
- iPhoto, Geotagging, GPS and the Mac: A Post-Macworld Roundup
- For our purposes, the big news from Macworld earlier this month was iPhoto ’09’s built-in geotagging. iPhoto is not the first application to support geotagging, but it’s the first to provide a compelling answer to the question of what geotagging…
- Geotagging Comes to Blogger
- Photos aren’t the only things that can be geotagged; blog entries can, too. (So can just about any discrete piece of information, for that matter; don’t be so un-2.0.) Anyway, Blogger has added geotagging to its “Blogger in Draft” interface…
- Nikon Geotagger Reviewed
- Here’s a review of Nikon’s upcoming GP-1 geotagger, which got my attention because I’m planning to lay hands on it for my D90 as soon as possible. (Which would make it my first-ever GPS unit, believe it or not.)…
- Macworld on Geotagging
- Macworld’s Ben Long takes a look at geotagging; it’s another one of those big-picture introductions, briefly noting a couple of cameras with built-in GPS before going on to spend most of its time on software solutions; a couple of gadgets…
- No Geotagging for GE E1050 Camera
- Remember that GE E1050 digital camera with the built-in GPS geotagging? Never mind: Richard found out that development on the GPS model has been suspended….
- ATP GPS PhotoFinder mini
- Geotagging a photo means adding geographical coordinates to an image’s metadata. There are basically two ways to do it. One, add that data in real-time when the picture is being taken, using a camera’s built-in GPS or an attached GPS…
- Nikon’s Digital SLR Geotagger
- Hot on the heels of the P6000 with its built-in GPS, Nikon has announced a GPS accessory for its digital SLRs. The GP-1 clips to the hotshoe and has two cables: one that plugs into the new D90’s GPS/remote…
- Nikon P6000: Built-in Geotagging
- Those interested in geotagging may well be interested in Nikon’s newly announced P6000, a $500, 13.5-megapixel compact digital camera with a built-in GPS for automatic geotagging. As a Nikon fanboy I’m intrigued; as a digital SLR user I’m jealous….
- iPhone Navigation Applications
- My original plan was to write an entry about the navigation applications available for the iPhone and iPod touch by buying a few of them myself and trying them. As often occurs with my plans, that didn’t happen. In…
- GiSTEQ GPS Loggers Now Mac-Compatible
- GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr devices — they’re GPS loggers for geotagging — are now Mac-compatible, with the release of PhotoTrackr software for the Mac; MacNN, MacCentral. Richard notes that the software “is actually a special version of JetPhoto that adds a GiSTEQ…
- Geotagging on Linux
- Marc Merlin describes how to geotag photos on Linux using GPS Visualizer and gpsPhoto; not for people who don’t like to hack with code a bit. Via Using Google Earth….
- Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
- Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the…
- Mac Software: GISLook & GISMeta, GPSInfo and GPS2Aperture
- Stefan looks at three GIS and GPS applications for the Mac: GISLook & GISMeta (shapefiles in Cover Flow and Quick Look), GPSInfo (geotagging photos), and GPS2Aperture (ditto)….
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools and Geotagging
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools support geotagging, which is interesting, but it’s a bit hubristic to say that geotagging is going mainstream as a result of that, as the title of the article describing Pro Photo Tools’ geotagging features does. Which…
- Geotagging Your Photos
- A three-part, step-by-step guide to geotagging from Uncornered Market, starting with a Sony GPS-CS1 (see previous entry) and going through a number of software packages to arrive at uploaded photos that have already been geotagged: Concepts and Basics Importing and…
- Solmeta DP-GPS N1
- Over at the Geotagging Flickr group, Michael Kirk has posted a review of still another geotagging accessory for a digital SLR camera, Solmeta’s DP-GPS N1, which works with high-end Nikon and compatible digital SLRs (i.e., D200 and up, Fuji…
- Mac Software Updates: Geophoto 2, MacGPS Pro 7.6
- Geophoto has reached version 2: MacNN reports that it now features simpler tagging, “now sports closer integration with iLife ‘08 and .Mac Web Galleries, and can import photos from Aperture and Lightroom”; at $25, it’s also half its previous price….
- Geotagging Photos on the Mac
- If, like me, you’re a Mac user with an interest in geotagging, you must drop everything right now and read Bruce McKenzie’s guide to geotagging photos on the Mac; a more comprehensive guide to the subject I can’t imagine. Via…
- An Apple/Mac Roundup
- I’ve had a few items cluttering up my to-do list that relate to Apple, the Mac and Mac software, and the iPhone/iPod since Macworld; time to stop procrastinating. iPhones and iPods. The iPhone’s mapping application got a major upgrade at…
- Geotagging Icon Update
- An update on this entry: the proposed geotagging icon now has a new design (it’s red) and a new home page. Via La Cartoteca….
- Another DIY Camera GPS Project
- A guide to building a homemade GPS attachment for a Nikon digital SLR that mounts on the hotshoe and connects via the 10-pin connector. If you’re at all uncomfortable with using a soldering iron, go no further. Via MAKE:…
- A Geotagging Roundup
- Two recent articles on geotagging, both of which describe it as an emerging trend, mainstream acceptance of which is just around the corner. This Associated Press story describes its potential and its utility, along with current methods, but notes that…
- Geotagging Icon Proposed
- Bruce McKenzie proposes a standard icon to indicate geotagged content, in the same vein as standard icons for RSS and so forth. Funnily enough, it’s a pushpin. Via Richard….
- The Holy Grail of Geotagging
- David Thulin is searching for a geotagging camera: I have been looking far and wide for the tools needed for immediate and automatic geotagging of images taken. My quest took me through Yahoo! Answers, numerous searches through forums and gadget-sites…
- Jobo Photo GPS
- Jobo has reannounced its Photo GPS camera accessory, which attaches via the camera’s hot shoe (or PC terminal, if your camera has one and you need a flash) and adds geographical data to your image files’ EXIF data when…
- GE E1050 Digital Camera: Built-in Geotagging
- I make a point of noting when digital cameras with built-in GPS and geotagging are announced. And, while GE isn’t exactly known for consumer digital cameras, its new E1050 camera does have built-in GPS for in-camera geotagging, which I…
- Flickr Places
- Flickr Places organizes geotagged photos into location-based pages — even my little town gets its own page. Meanwhile, Flickr’s map goes from pushpins to tags, which may necessarily not be an improvement. Announcements: Flickr Blog, Yahoo Local and Maps…
- GeoPic II: Another Nikon Geotagger
- The holy grail of geotagging is to embed GPS-derived lat/long data into a photo’s EXIF data at the moment it’s taken. There have been a few options for high-end Nikon digital SLRs; now here’s another one: the GeoPic II…
- GPS Loggers and the Mac
- “The state of the union between inexpensive GPS loggers and the Mac is not so good,” Richard writes in a post looking at the state of Macintosh compatibility and support — both current and potential — for four GPS loggers….
- Another Geotagging Roundup
- Free Geography Tools had a seven-part geotagging series last month beginning with this post; it covered a number of Windows applications that I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of. Richard Akerman has a couple of relevant posts on his Science…
- KPIX-TV on Geotagging
- KPIX-TV, the San Francisco CBS station, has a report on geotagging that covers at least two of the three bases — viz., manually geotagging photos and syncing photos with a GPS data logger — and mentions a couple of geotagging…
- Magrathea: Mac Geotagging Software
- Another Mac geotagging application to add to an already surprisingly large pile: Magrathea. Free (donationware), integrates with iLife and Flickr. Via Geotagging Flickr. Previously: More Mac Geotagging Utilities; Geophoto: Mac Geotagging Software; GPS, Geotagging Automator Actions for the Mac;…
- Picasa Adds Geotagging
- Picasa Web Albums, Google’s photo sharing site, now has geotagging: photos can be placed on a map; visitors can view an album’s photos on a map or from within Google Earth. It’s more limited than what you can do with…
- Flickr Feeds
- I use Flickr to post my photos online, and I’m interested in geotagging my photos, so when Flickr made available some additional geotagged feed options, I paid attention. Beta support for GeoRSS feeds for people and tags, with group GeoRSS…
- Miscellaneous Google Things
- Mashup makers take note: the Google Maps API now supports driving directions. Google has gone and bought photo-geotagging site Panoramio. At a Developer Day talk, Google’s plans for integrating AdSense into its map products. (Disclaimer: I make money from AdSense.)…
- DIY Geotagging for a Nikon Digital SLR
- If you’re using a high-end Nikon digital SLR (D200 and above), the simplest method of adding lat/long coordinates to your photo’s EXIF data is to use the MC-35 GPS adapter cable, which has a port for a GPS receiver’s serial…
- GlobalSat DG-100 GPS Data Logger
- Richard has a review of the GlobalSat DG-100 GPS data logger, which can be used for geotagging (if the clocks on the data logger and camera are in sync). And presumably tracerouting. He also compares it to the Sony…
- A Geotagging Roundup
- Geotagging links have been piling up in my note-taking application; time to flush the queue. How to geocode your photos, a long post on bike-community.net. Via GPS Tracklog. HoudahGeo is a Mac-only geotagging app. $35. Via Ogle Earth and TUAW….
- GeoRSS, KML Added to Google Maps API
- GeoRSS and KML support has been added to the Google Maps API, which should have a major impact on how map mashups acquire their data. Since GeoRSS appears to be trivial to add to RSS feeds (Flickr can outputs GeoRSS…
- Geophoto Reviewed
- Over on Ogle Earth, Stefan reviews Geophoto, the Mac-only geotagging photo application announced in January. “I’m conflicted about Geophoto,” he writes. “It is exceptionally simple, but it costs $50 for far less functionality than what you get in Google Earth…
- More Mac Geotagging Utilities
- An awful lot of geotagging utilities for the Mac (adding metadata to a file is probably not a difficult programming task). Here are two more, from the same company: PhotoInfoEditor and PhotoGPSEditor; they’re practically identical except that the latter adds…
- About Ricoh’s GPS Camera
- James and Dan are enthusiastic about Ricoh’s release of the 500SE GPS-ready digital camera, but I’m not sure how groundbreaking this is. (By which I mean that I’m confused and seek enlightenment; I’m not speaking rhetorically.) For one thing, it’s…
- Geophoto: Mac Geotagging Software
- Also at Macworld, a new geotagging and photomapping application called Geophoto was announced: it apparently integrates with iPhoto on the one hand and Flickr and photo RSS feeds on the other, allowing you to both assign coordinates to your photos…
- GPS, Geotagging Automator Actions for the Mac
- For Mac users, some Automator actions to tell you about: GPS Automator Actions (which require GPSBabel) is a collection of scripts that automate downloading data from, and uploading to, a GPS unit and converting file formats; GeoTagging Automator Action…
- NY Times on Geotagging
- A good article on geotagging in today’s New York Times that could stand as a general introduction to the subject: it explains how geodata can be assigned to photos, discusses the photo-sharing services that support it, and mentions a few…
- Firefox Mapping Extensions
- Mapz: A GIS Librarian takes a look at some mapping-related Firefox extensions: All Your Maps Are Belong to Us, which converts URLs for other mapping sites to Google Maps; GMiF, which embeds a Google Map on a Flickr photo page…
- Flickr’s Hidden(ish) Map Features
- Rev Dan Catt reveals three hidden(ish) Flickr map features, including GeoRSS, microformats (both automatically built into RSS feeds and photo pages, respectively) and URL shortcuts….
- Geotagging Review
- Zack reviews three geotagging software options: TopoFusion, WWMX and GPS Visualizer, and RoboGeo. Via GPS Tracklog….
- That Thing About iPhoto
- This post about hidden GPS and mapping settings in iPhoto has been making the rounds of the Mac rumour mill and the mapping blogs (AppleInsider, Ed Parsons, GPS Review, MacRumors, Ogle Earth). My response is, cool your jets, everyone. If…
- Choropleth Map of Flickr Photos
- A choropleth map of Flickr photos as a KMZ file for Google Earth; it shows how many photos from each lat/long grid have been uploaded to Flickr. I was intrigued to see that unexpected places like St. Helena and…
- Sony GPS-CS1 Reviewed
- Richard has managed to lay hands on a new Sony GPS-CS1, the small gadget that records time and location data and comes with software that allows you to add that location data to the photos you took at that…
- Third-Party Geotaggers Adopting Flickr API
- Third-party geotagging services are adopting the new Flickr API geo extensions, the Flickr blog reports, so they’re not in danger of extinction quite yet. See previous entries: Flickr Geotagging Roundup; Flickr Adds Geotagging….
- Flickr Geotagging Roundup
- The Flickr blog reports that 1.2 million photos were geotagged within the first 24 hours. (That’s half a percent of the total.) That post also talks about some of the behind-the-scenes search technology, admits that the maps (provided by Yahoo!,…
- Flickr Adds Geotagging
- As anticipated, Flickr has launched an in-house geotagging system. It uses a map-based user interface rather than tags applied by one of the many third-party geotagging hacks, and it does so from within the Organizr. There are video tutorials on…
- Will Flickr Get In-House Geotagging?
- For those of us who have our photos on Flickr, geotagging tools that integrate with that photo-hosting service are, of course, of considerable interest (see previous entry). But, given that Yahoo! owns Flickr now and also has a respectable mapping…
- Google Earth: Flickr Browsing Tools; Enterprise Blog
- If you have a Flickr account and are interested in geotagging, don’t miss Frank’s roundup on Google Earth Blog: Three Flickr Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth — the point of which is to allow you to browse geotagged Flickr…
- Geotagging Indirectly: ZoneTag, Sony
- A bit more on geotagging — adding geographic coordinates to digital photos. One the one hand there’s having a GPS-enabled camera; on the other there’s adding latitude and longitude manually. Some options in between the two extremes are emerging which…
- A List of Mac Software
- Via Ogle Earth: GPS Photo Linker is software to save GPS data to a photo. iPhotoToGoogleEarth exports photos to Google Earth. You should have GPS data assigned to the photo data; isn’t it handy that you already have GPS Photo…
- Google Roundup: Geo Developer Day Recap; Geotagging in Picasa
- A look back on Google’s Geo Developer Day on Monday, with some additional links on the subject. For summaries of the event, look at these reports from MacWorld and Search Engine Watch. The Google Maps API Blog discusses the…
- Camera with GPS, GPS with Camera
- More geotagging coverage. Tim’s page covers the steps involved in taking photos from a GPS-compatible digital camera (in this case, the droolworthy Nikon D200) and placing them on a Google Map; with source code (via Google Maps Mania). On the…
- A Geotagging/Geocoding Roundup
- I haven’t covered geotagging — adding location data to digital photos (and then doing neat things with that data) — as much as I’d like to, and I’ve got a lot of links on the subject gathering dust in my…
- A Greasemonkey Script Combining Google Maps and Flickr
- GMiF (“Google Maps in Flickr”) is a Greasemonkey script (a Firefox browser extension) that allows you to see your geotagged photos on Google Maps from within Flickr. Thanks to Noel for the link….
- Forbes: Mapping the Web’s Future
- Forbes has a big-picture introduction to Google Maps applications and the growing trend of geotagging as much information on the web as possible. Via Cartography….
- Geotagging Roundup
- Geotagging comes in many flavours. First, let’s take a look at Tagzania, a web site where you can add keywords to specific geographic locations, and track that keyword via RSS. I’m not sure how scalable this concept is; imagine the…
- How to Geotag Photos
- MAKE: Blog has a geotagging tutorial that covers every step of the process and several different web services: taking the photo, getting the lat/long coordinates from a GPS or Google Maps, uploading the photos to Flickr, adding the lat/long coordinates…
- Mid-June Google Maps Roundup
- Some more hacks, news and commentary about Google Maps that I’ve been saving up for another one of these roundup posts: Google Maps hacking gets mentioned on CNN (via Google Maps Mania). Google has deployed a 3D mapping truck in…
- Flickr Geotagging Group
- More on geotagging, Geobloggers and Flickr: there’s now a geotagging group on Flickr that discusses ways and means of incorporating location metadata into Flickr photos. Via Google Maps Mania. See previous entries: Automating Geotagging, Google Maps Plus Flickr….
- Automating Geotagging
- Steeev has come up with some scripts (Firefox and Greasemonkey required) to automate the process of geotagging your Flickr photos for Geobloggers (see previous entry). Via MAKE: Blog….
- Google Maps Plus Flickr
- We’ve seen Google Maps posted to Flickr; now, thanks to a little Google Map hackery and the Flickr API, there’s another Google Maps mashup, Geobloggers, which puts geotagged photos on a Google Maps-generated map. All you need to do is…
- Honey, I Geotagged the Kids
- Honey, I Geotagged the Kids: an essay by Douglas Rushkoff on the new collaborative mapping technologies — many of which have been featured here, though I haven’t assigned them their own category yet….
