Interesting snap shot of data. I took 2 photos and posted them on flickr. Photo's are both of pretty much the same thing. I tagged both of them switzerland, which is the location for both but one of them I geo-tagged with lat/long details. The other one i didnt. 4 days later and the one that is geotagged has 61 views and the one that is not has 1 view (which incidentally was me). People seem to be searching flickr for lat/lon a lot more than I expected. I just added the lat/long to the other one to see what happens.
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Rod Edwards | 30-May-06 at 4:46 pm | Permalink
John - you may want to take a look at the “Geotagging Flickr” group at:
http://flickr.com/groups/geotagging
Personally, I run a geo site that maps Flickr photos (among a tonne of other things). Your switzerland photo (I think) is here:
http://blockrocker.com/index.php?pcat=70&platt=45.95&plongt=8.95&pzoom=14
Finally, I have a Flickr geotagging tool that makes it extremely easy to add geotags to your pics:
http://www.blockrocker.com/service_flickr.php
There’s lots of discussion on my Flickr service here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72057594136045112/
Final note, is that I also have a tag generator for blog posts, which blockrocker will then pick up and map via technorati:
http://www.blockrocker.com/service_geoblog.php
There you have it. There’s quite the geotagging subculture out there!
-Rod.
John | 31-May-06 at 1:27 am | Permalink
Thks Rod. Seems like you are seeking to geo tag everything. I used your flickr/blockrocker tool to add geo-tags to other photos — useful.
Did wonder whether there was a protocol for tagging something with approx. lat/lon vs. exact lat/lon?
Rod Edwards | 31-May-06 at 10:19 am | Permalink
Hi John - I’d like to geotag as much as makes sense, for sure. I started all in response to travel planning and home shopping - and found geotagging to be very useful.
At any rate - there isn’t a protocol that I know of for descibing a rough area. Wikimapia.com (IIRC) uses rectangles to designate areas about which information can be written, but I haven’t implemented anything similar myself, instead relying on people to pick an arbitrary point in the area and work off of that.
If you think there’s a compelling enough reason to implement a “fuzzy geotag” let me know, and i’ll look into it.
–Rod.
John | 02-Jun-06 at 1:03 pm | Permalink
It will be interesting to see how we differentiate precise lat/lon from general areas. I wonder if there shouldnt be a tag for general vs. precise. Or fuzzy as you call it — appropriate name.