Geotagging
August 30th 2006 20:35. Updated: August 31st 2006 21:59
Just been playing with the new geotagging feature in Flickr. It’s good fun, but the poor quality of the maps really let it down. It’s impossible to accurately pinpoint where anything actually is, particularly since roads are most straight lines and railways often wander out into the sea.
Place names are pretty bad aswell: Burntisland is named correctly, but it is next to a non-existant town called Birntisland! Kirkcaldy isn’t named at all, and Dunkeld and Birnam have merged to become Dunkeld-Birnam. It’s just as well this tool exists then!
Update: I’ve found Kirkcaldy on Yahoo!’s map — in completely the wrong place.
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#1 Eduardo Manchon
August 30th 2006 23:46
For those who are interested in areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, like U.K. Panoramio may be an alternative.
In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You also can watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.
Eduardo
#2 Rhys
August 31st 2006 11:17
Have you treid Tagzania.com? You can link Flickr photo’s to your tags. You can find locations using your prefered map (google, multimap, Ask).
Here’s what I did for my trip to Canada
#3 Calum Leslie
September 4th 2006 19:16
Hahahaha, that Kirkcaldy thing is hilarious.