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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Becky wuz here (and here... and here...)

So Flickr have properly integrated geotagging into their service, and it seems to work quite well.

I've spent a semi-constructive hour or so going through my old pics and tagging some of them with their locations. At first I just did the ones of interesting architecture and such, but then I thought: why not the ones of me too?

After all, Becky does get about a bit (quiet down at the back).

Early Morning on the Beach, Barcelona

So now you can find out just exactly where pictures like the one above were taken, if you were so moved.

One thing that annoys me a little is that they've used Yahoo's mapping service, which is a poor imitation of Google Maps. Flickr freely admit it's not as detailed as it should be, and are promising to work on it, but at the moment I'm wishing Google had bought Flickr and not Yahoo!

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Blogger Jane  Yahoo Maps are piss poor compared to Google Maps. 
Anonymous Magpie  I've spent far too much time over the last two days playing with this new toy, and I must say that while Yahoo maps are generally rubbish in comparison to google (coverage of birmingham is piss poor) there have been a few places where yahoo has actually had better coverage. 
Blogger Becky  Yeah you're right Clair, in some places the satellite coverage is better, it will be nice when they get proper road maps for the UK too.

I found the best technique was to find places in Google Maps, then switch to satellite view, and compare it to the satellite view in Flickr! :-) 
Blogger Jessica  2 things bothered me about their mapping thing, the yahoo maps are crap, and they don't geotag the images! The geotagging format is a common microstandard that loads of other utils make use of, they could have at least offered it as an option. It wouldn't have been half as bad if they had a proximity search in their api but they don't!

Oh and bex I'm listening to the soundtrack from our Barcelona DVD :) 
Blogger Cathii Scott  I agree that the Yahoo maps are aweful. Apparently the river that runs right through the middle of Perth is actually the Canning River and not the Swan River as every other map in the world shows it.

And what is with these markings on the maps that don't correspond with any feature I know of. Double dashed blue lines.... what are they? Alien landing zones? 
Anonymous Magpie  "I found the best technique was to find places in Google Maps, then switch to satellite view, and compare it to the satellite view in Flickr! :-) "

That's exactely what I was doing. One can only hope that now the yahoo maps are exposed to a much larger audience they'll invest more time in upgrading them. 
Anonymous Eduardo Manchon  For those of you who are from areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, like England or Australia, our project Panoramio may be interesting. I mean, not like an alternative to Flickr, but just like a place focused in geolocated photos with Google Maps.

In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You can also watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.

Hope you like it, we have been working very hard on it

Eduardo 
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv_mx  It is a great idea indeed, to locate were pics were taken, but indeed the yahoo maps, don't have the capability or detail to do it properly 

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