Where in the world is Gemma Coward?
Well at the moment Coventry, but this time next week I’ll be in Alcudia, Majorca gaining a few extra freckles. 
However even if I hadn’t gloated, the observant among you could still have discovered my whereabouts given a couple of dead certs: 
- My tendency to upload photos to Flickr before I’ve even unpacked/picked up the fur balls from the catsitter/reset my watch to GMT and…
- My newfound love of geotagging
Geotagging aka adding geographical metadata to Flickr pictures in this case, allows members to find and share photos by location.
Each individual photo or set of photos can be tagged using Flickr Organizr’s new “Map” tab by dragging the image onto a specific location on the map. As well as allowing searches for all pictures taken in Sherwood Forest, for example, I can also create a geographical map of my personal piccy collection.
It’s very simple to use and as usual with Flickr, I can choose privacy settings to control who can see the picture locations. Similar to Google maps, Flickr’s map (actually Yahoo’s), allows searching, map zooming, and panning. Pretty nifty.
Links:
Great shot - where’d you take that? [Flickr Blog]
In other news:
Flickr maps also beats any of those crappy ‘number of countries I’ve visited’ memes hands down.
Sadly, my photos centre around England & Wales, with a bit of Spain and France thrown in for good measure…
I can’t get that to work!
Go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/ then click on the map tab and it should ask you about permissions - does it not?!
Flickr geotagging interface is brilliant, but the big problem are Yahoo Maps that only cover well US and Canada. Europe coverage is very poor. Also Flickr interface is not designed for accuracy, but for massive geotagging, what it is perfect for some people, but not for others.
If you prefer Google Maps instead of Yahoo Maps for mapping your photos and you care about accuracy, our project, Panoramio, may be interesting for you. Btw, you can later watch the photos in Google Earth KML feed,
Eduardo
Hi Eduardo,
Thanks for the link. I had looked at geotagging before, but never did it simply because I was too lazy to add coordinates to my tags! Which accounts for why I love flickr’s drag and drop method so much.
I’m really interested in Panoramio though - and will have a play around on it tonight!
Cheers,
Gem
Ah, my friend the early adopter. I find these things late on via you (as always :o) ), or boingboing (which has some great New Orleans photos linked at the moment).
I am hopeless when it comes to uploading photos to Flickr, you know it. Still, I have good intentions.
Seems we’ve updated blogs at the same time again.