Never one to be afraid of being the last on a bandwagon, I’ve started Geotagging some Flickr photos.
To get an idea what it’s about, look at this photo and click on ‘geotagged’ under the photo. Be prepared to wait a while, and you should get a map from www.geobloggers.com and Google maps with the photo’s location marked on it. Then click on ‘Find newest photos within current map area’ to see other photos from the same area.
I don’t have any GPS gizmos, so to Geotag pictures I use Google maps. I go to http://maps.google.co.uk, find the spot I took the photo, centre it and zoom in as far as I can.
You can then extract the latitude and longitude by clicking on ‘Link to this page’ and looking at the resulting URL (web address).
For example, from an URL of
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.397887,
-2.459253&spn=0.003752,0.007318&hl=en
you can extract a latitude of 51.397887 and a longitude of -2.459253.
Now, back in Flickr add some tags to your picture:
geo:lat=51.397887
geo:lon=-2.459253
geotagged
Then add a hyperlink to the photo’s description:
<a href=”http://www.geobloggers
.com/”>geotagged</a>
The key thing – and this wasn’t made very clear on various web sites I read – is that you must follow this link for Geobloggers to log the photo. And you probably need to log out of Flickr (or right-click or apple-click on the link) first, or Flickr will just assume you want to edit the description.
Find your neighbourhood or favourite place on www.geobloggers.com and have a look around – it’s quite addictive!