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Geolocate Your Photos

posted by Satri on Friday March 03, @11:44AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the geolocating-those-holiday-pictures dept.

Eduardo Manchon writes "We just launched a new project few months ago, Panoramio.com, where you can upload and locate easily your photos over Google Maps. People already sent more than 12.000 photos around the World. Panoramio's KML feed is currently featured in Google Earth's download page."

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• Geolocating Photos

  (Score:2, Interesting)

  by mariahoney (424) on Friday March 03, @01:19PM (#481)

  It would be nice to see a digital camera that stored a pair of coordinates along with the .jpg
  • Re:Geolocating Photos

    (Score:3)

    by Satri (3) on Friday March 03, @01:28PM (#482)
    ( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @05:07PM )

    I never used one, but it seems some GPS-enabled digital cameras already exists [google.com].

    [ Parent ]
    • Re:Geolocating Photos

      (Score:3, Interesting)

      by mariahoney (424) on Friday March 03, @01:55PM (#483)

      In all seriousness, this might be one of those sites that really takes off. Sure, there is a lot of crap that needs to be filtered (like that one guy that photoshop'ed himself in sliding belly first with penguins in Greenland. Correct me if I am wrong, but penguins, or any other flightless birds, don't exist north of the Galapagos Islands). I could see this site as being just as big as wikipedia. I wonder if you could invest in such a site. I'd buy some stock.

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      • being 'local'

        (Score:4, Interesting)

        by matox (6) on Saturday March 04, @03:11AM (#488)

        You are correct yes it is likely that some errors will occur either on a voluntary or unvoluntary basis - it's unavoidable. But in my view, instead of looking at some of the potential shortcomings we need to recognize what a breakthrough this is. If you think about the time when a complete map of the world was produced the focus was on putting details on it and improving accuracy of some regions for transport reasons for example. Current maps on Google Earth & Map pretty much cover all there is to cover for mainstream. As they can't cover everything separate efforts also provide their share and widen the stream of usage. This site allows the annotations of the global map with pictures which tell stories which in turn provide you with an interesting impression of being 'local'. I find it extremely useful. Instead of browsing websites and using google search to find images of a specific location I can simply now use the map, zoom in, and see a couple of pics for my area of interest. Brilliant and implemented in a very smart way. Cheers, Pierre

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