Geotagging with Flickr
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I had an amazing adventure around White Sands Missile Range yesterday and decided to geotag some pictures I took there. Being new to the whole geotagging process I initially decided the best way to do it would be with Flickr’s Map system. That couldn’t have been further from the truth. Out of all the places I’ve been in the world I have either the address or GPS coordinates. The Flickr Map wanted street addresses; how do you identify a location that doesn’t have a street address? When you’re off the beaten path by dozens of miles the only thing you have are coordinates.
I decided, with some advice from Jeff Quinton, to use a combo of Google Earth and Trippermap. The tutorial on combining these two tools can be found at the Trippermap site. It took quite some time but I have a lot of my pictures on Flickr geotagged and available for viewing on my Flickr Map. I’m impressed with the amount of pictures I was able to geotag using address alone but the process of tagging using coordinates needs to be significantly improved upon.
All in all, it was a painful process but it got the job done. In a nutshell, I’m not impressed with the Flickr Map system. I should be able to go to a picture enter the coordinates from which it was taken and be done. It’s not to that point yet but when it eventually does get to that point geotagging photos will be an everyday occurrence for Flickr users.
[tags]flickr, map, geotag, geotagging, google earth, trippermap, flickrmap[/tags]
3 Comments
Tim Hodkinson
March 27th, 2007
at 6:44pm
Nice photos. I really like desert landscapes. I’ve got #1331 on my desktop. The view from Salinas Peak must have been incredible. When I first saw some of the the Salina Peak photos I thought you’d taken them from an airplane. You take good photos.
oaf357
March 28th, 2007
at 2:55pm
Thanks, Tim. I appreciate the feedback and no I wasn’t in an aircraft; my feet were flat on the ground.
Tom
April 20th, 2007
at 1:18am
Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver like the Sony GPS-CS1 in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at http://www.locr.com.