Aug
28
(2006)
Flickr Geotagging UCalgary
Filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Flickr, photography, ucalgary.
I spent some time playing with Flickr's cool new geotagging tool - which lets you add location metadata to any image you upload to Flickr. It works very nicely, letting you easily cluster locations, and quickly add multiple images. Here's what I've done with a handful of images I've taken of the UCalgary campus:
Flickr Geotagging UCalgary
They also provide an easy link feature, so I can add a link directly to this map view .
I've played with the Greasemonkey/Google Maps hack for Flickr, which is really cool (especially considering it's user-added functionality), but this is much slickr. It's good to see Flickr getting past its self-imposed development embargo now that they've tackled some of the scalability issues.
Also, I realize that my photos are heavily skewed to the northeast corner of campus. I'll have to rectify that…
I can think of at least two projects that can utilize such a tool this semester. This is excellent, thanks Darcy. Is the base image of the Calgary Campus from Google maps? It seems to be a pretty hi-resolution image for google, but the chances that you know something I don’t are very, very good!
Jim, the Flickr geotagging system uses Yahoo! maps (Yahoo! bought Flickr a while back). Decent coverage, and some areas seem higher resolution - others worse.