Flickr Supports GeoTagging your Photos...

Tags: GeoTagging, Greece, Personal, Photography

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 4:56:00 PM


If you have you ever take a long trip to some obscure place in the world
and come back with 4gig+ of photos and then tried to organize them after
the fact? You will soon realize just how hard it is to tell one photo
apart from another. Did I take this picture in Athens or whats it in
Olympia? I just cant remember! So you start to dig around in the
timestamps and such, eventually you figure it out. This is just time
consuming and annoying, especially if you plan on organizing all of them
at once.

Next, you want to show off your pictures to your friends and family, so
you upload all your photo's to a photo share site, like what I use,
Flickr.com. It has a few options to organize your photo's into sets and
up until a little while ago that is all you could really do. They
recently add support for 'GeoTagged' (aka Geocodeing) photo's.

The gist of GeoTagging a photo is the process of adding some meta data
inside of your photograph which indicates the date/time and the exact
longitude and latitude of when and where the photo was taken. You also
have the ability to drag your photo's onto a Map to GeoTag them. If you
are a subscriber, check out the Map tab in the Organize section of the site.

With this recent upgrade I have been finally convinced that I need to
get that GPS I have been eye balling on eBay. All that you need to do
is ensure the clock on your camera and on the GPS device is in synch,
and then smash the logs from the GPS device together with the photos
(more on the exact process of this later). Now with your photos
GeoTagged you can share them with your friends and family in a more
visual manner.

Here is a sample of what I'm talking about. I used the manual tagging
method, and it works pretty good. You will notice all of the red dots,
with a number inside of them. By double clicking each you can view our
Greece photos in the location which we took them.


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