Geotagging

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 a starting point. Via Richard….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
‘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 a gallery; to reiterate, the maps are generated purely from…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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.” In layman’s terms, they were trying to map the intangible…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Los Angeles, Miscellany, New York
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 — you have one guess as to which is simpler…   Read more →
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Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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, probably because, as a Mac user, my options were slightly…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Tech Reviews
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 terminals are concerned. (D90 users must make do with the…   Read more →
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Posted on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 was planning to cover; he even has photos of the…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 photos I tried with it, in that geotags assigned in…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh, Tech Reviews
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 fell so far behind I have been recommending other brands…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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”)….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Mobile Devices
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)….   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 is good for. That, plus its near-ubiquity on the Mac…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Macintosh
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 — a sort of experimental testing ground for new features….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Categories: Blogs, Geotagging
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.) It’s a detailed review, the kind of obsessive camera-site review…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 8:44 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 — these ones — are also mentioned….   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 module. Or two, use a separate GPS logger that you…   Read more →
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Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 port, and one for the 10-pin PC connector for higher-end…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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. Digital Photography Review, Gizmodo….   Read more →
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Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 any event, the fact that I’d be using my iPod…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Categories: Geocaching, Geotagging, Mobile Devices
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 driver.” JetPhoto is compatible with a number of GPS loggers….   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 Google Earth Blog, Frank has a roundup of innovative computer…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Copyright, Facebook, Geolocation Services, Geotagging, Google Earth, Map Projections, Triangulations (Links), Video
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)….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 is not to say that that article isn’t worth a…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Software
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 Embedding GPS Data Uploading and Displaying Via Richard. Buy Sony…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 S5 — anything with the 10-pin data port), embedding geographical…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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. MacGPS Pro 7.6 includes support for Garmin’s Colorado series of…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Macintosh
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 Richard….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 Macworld, and is now available on the iPod touch as…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Macintosh, Mobile Devices
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….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 6:16 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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: Blog. Previously: DIY Geotagging for a Nikon Digital SLR….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 its uptake isn’t high — it notes Flickr’s estimate that…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 7:24 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 — all without success. The GE E1050 is what brought…   Read more →
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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 6:45 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Questions
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 you’re back at your computer. Expected mid-year for $159 —…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 find interesting. Apart from the $249 price tag, the 10-megapixel…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 Blog. Previously: Flickr Feeds….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Online 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 clips onto the hotshoe and connects through the accessory socket….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 Library Pad blog: this one actually explains why georeferenced photos…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh, Software
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 sites. I’m puzzled by the somewhat gratuitous privacy-and-security implications tacked…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Video
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; A List of Mac Software….   Read more →
Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 — which is my opinion of Picasa’s web offerings…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 8:04 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 support promised. (See also Geotagging Flickr.) GeoRSS feeds for named…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, June 8, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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.) Have a look at the car that takes most of…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
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 cable. (The Nikon web site only lists the cable as…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 GPS-CS1, which he reviewed last September. “The software is a…   Read more →
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Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:39 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Tracerouting
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. The number of geotagged Panoramio photos in the Google Earth…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:22 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 in RSS feeds of geotagged photos, for example), this means…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups
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 (and its network link). That’s quite an audacious proposal. ……   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 GPX/NMEA file support. Each has a built-in Google Maps interface…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 8:33 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 labelled as GPS-ready, which usually does not mean that it’s…   Read more →
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Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 8:41 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging
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 and view geotagged photos — yours and those online —…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 3:08 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 enables you to add geodata from a GPS track file…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 9:32 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Macintosh
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 of the hardware options. (GPS-equipped cameras are not widely available…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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 if the photo is geotagged; and Get Directions from Google…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 8:34 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups, Software
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….   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Categories: Geotagging
Geotagging Review
Zack reviews three geotagging software options: TopoFusion, WWMX and GPS Visualizer, and RoboGeo. Via GPS Tracklog….   Read more →
Posted on Friday, October 6, 2006 at 9:55 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Software
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 Apple and Google were planning to integrate iPhoto and Google…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at 8:37 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Macintosh
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 Greenland have had photos uploaded. (What, no photos from Tristan…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 8:34 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Google Earth
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 time. His review is excellent and thorough: he runs it…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 2:38 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging
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….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 1:35 PM
Categories: 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!, which owns Flickr) have their shortcomings (especially outside the U.S.),…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 1:45 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 how to geotag your photos and how to search for…   Read more →
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Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 at 3:14 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 service, one might wonder why Yahoo!/Flickr hasn’t offered an in-house…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 at 7:57 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 photos from within Google Earth. Google Earth Enterprise Blog is…   Read more →
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Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 at 8:20 AM
Categories: Blogs, Geotagging, Google Earth
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 strike me as a little unorthodox: they get the job…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 9:09 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging
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 Linker? LoadMyTracks downloads GPS data and converts it to GPX…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 2:16 PM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Macintosh
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 new geocoding feature. On Geography 2.0, Alan Glennon takes a…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Conferences, Geotagging, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups
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 other hand, sure, you could add GPS to a camera,…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Categories: GPS, Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups
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 files. But in the meantime here are a couple of…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 9:52 AM
Categories: Geotagging
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….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 9:46 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups
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….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 2:00 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
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 chaos if every bar and lake on the planet are…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 10:08 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
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 as tags, and viewing the photos on a map from…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, July 3, 2005 at 10:40 PM
Categories: Geotagging
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 San Francisco, with the goal of having a three-dimensional framework…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 4:46 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
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….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 9:51 AM
Categories: Geotagging, Groups & Societies
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….   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 11:07 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Online Maps
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 add latitude and longitude tags to your photo, plus a…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 11:09 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Online Maps
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….   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 10:25 AM
Categories: Geotagging

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