Comments on: Geotagging Flickr photos - the right way

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By: Found in cyberspace at Another Blasted Weblog

Found in cyberspace at Another Blasted Weblog — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:58:45 +0000

[...] I had also posted a comment at High Earth Orbit, which has lots of good info about geotagging, in response to a post about how to geotag Flickr photos “the right way”. Andrew Turner, the author, was kind enough to reply, pointing me to PictureSync, an uploader that supports many image sharing web sites beyond Flickr. I downloaded 1.5, but that kept giving me an error, so I tried the 1.6 beta and that worked like a charm. I uploaded one test image (another Plumeria, of course), all the tags got through, and it appeared on my map automagically. [...]

By: Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:33:47 +0000

I too use iView to catalogue my images. I was wondering why you run the script to put the Geodata into specific custom fields when it is there in the EXIF. I suppose it is so you can display that information in iView. That is not something I need to do, at least not at the moment.

I will look into PictureSync. Thanks for the link.

Jeremy

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:54:00 +0000

GPSPhotoLinker is great if you have tracks - but I don’t always have my GPS on/around me. What I would like is if GPSPL allowed me to set & store locations and then later assign those locations - or a simple interface to build a “fake” track file (I type in where I was at what times, from calendar, memory, tickets, etc) that is then used.

However, I still need a Media management tool, which is why I use iView. It lets me set all the other metadata too - so it follows my philosophy of bringing geo-functionality into the tools I already use, rather than making me use geo-specific tools.

As for it overwriting the EXIF - while this is a common problem to be watched out for whenever editing photos, in my experience my EXIF data gets through fine.

I edit my photos, then write all the meta data I want in iView, run the Applescript to set the Geo. Then I use PictureSync to resize and upload the photos. Flickr sees the Exif. Check out this photo to see that it worked ok.

By: Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:35:01 +0000

I don’t understand why you need iView and your scripts if you have used GPSPhotoLinker, because GPOSPL writes the EXIF data to the file based on the track you give it. In fact, iView destroys those data on sending out to Flickr Uploadr, as I discovered after wasting a lot of time wondering what was going on. Worse, Flickr Uploadr also destroys the EXIF GPS data, at least if you let it do any resizing. At the moment I don’t have the bandwidth to test without resizing. If I upload direct to Flickr, with no resizing, then the EXIF GPS data are preserved.

There has to be a better way!

Jeremy

By: Gregor J. Rothfuss

Gregor J. Rothfuss — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:29:29 +0000

i wonder who we should talk to to encourage flickr to not lock people in, and add the lat/long information to all EXIF headers.

By: will

will — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:07:07 +0000

Have you seen the new Sony GPS-CS1 ?: see link

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=GPSCS1

Of course its better to have a Camera with built in GPS but this is pretty cool.

http://www.trippermap.com provides a pretty good add-in for Google earth that allows geotagging of flickr photos and also a nice world map.

http://will-davies.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=105

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:45:29 +0000

for those of us who aren’t going to carry around a GPS unit or look up coordinates for each photo, try using Picasa 2.5 and Google Earth. it is a similar process to geotagging in flickr, but you use GE instead. a great tutorial can be found here: http://digitalgeography.co.uk/262.
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