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rakerman writes "I am interested in automated geocoding of photos from GPS track logs, so I have put together a page with all the information I could find: geocoding photos. (I consider geocoding to be embedding the GPS info into the EXIF metadata.) I have also included information on the related topic of geotagging for Flickr and other photo sites."
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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."
Slashgeo: slashgeo Adds Flickr Images to User Journals
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Flickr.com acquires slashgeo.org! Just kidding ;-) Amongst the recent enhancements, I added a feature to slashgeo that you won't even find on slashdot: the ability to add Flickr images to your journal entries. Journal what? slashgeo gives every member a journal where you can write stuff in it. You can now share your Maps and Screenshots directly in your journal using this. At your choice, you can let other members comment on your journal entries.
Want to use and try this? Go in your users prefs to add your Flickr ID and then go to your journal and write something and include that Flickr picture! Of course, an explanation would not be complete without a proof of concept ;-) I took the time to update a lot of minor elements of slashgeo, including adding the Last Journal entries slashbox on the righ-hand side of slashgeo's main page.
Want to use and try this? Go in your users prefs to add your Flickr ID and then go to your journal and write something and include that Flickr picture! Of course, an explanation would not be complete without a proof of concept ;-) I took the time to update a lot of minor elements of slashgeo, including adding the Last Journal entries slashbox on the righ-hand side of slashgeo's main page.
Application Domains: Navigation Using Photos 4 comments
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Very Spatial links to a Shiny Shiny article about "GPS in-car Sat Nav device that will take you to your destination using only the power of photos". From the article: "Snap a photo of - say - your mum's house on your next visit using the in-built camera, and the unit will record the co-ordinates. Next time you want to be a good daughter and pay a visit, you can just bring up the pic of the parental abode and the Navman will guide you in [...]."
RoboGEO - Simplifying Georeferencing of Photos 1 comment
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The Google Earth Blog discuss the update of RoboGEO, a tool to geocode photos. Main features from the RoboGEO website: "Write to the EXIF Headers, Stamp the Images,
Create Google Maps, Create Google Earth KML or KMZ Files,
Upload Geotagged Photos to Flickr, Create ESRI Shapefiles, Export AutoCAD DXF Files, Export to MapPoint, more." We discussed geocoding photos before.
Application Domains: Geocoded Photos for Navigation 2 comments
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IntrepidAntipodean writes "Navman, makers of in-car sat-nav systems, have released their NavPix website to the public. The NavPix Library lets users download and upload (free registration required for upload) photos and geocode them using a street address or lat/long, it'll also read the Exif tags if you've already coded them. If you own one of their devices you can load the images on to it and use the picture as a destination. A great way to plan a road trip." See also numerous links in previous stories provided below.
Industry: Geotagged Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth 2 comments
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The Google Earth Blog discuss different ways to browse geotagged photos in Google Earth, especially those found on Flickr. From the blog: "But, as more people start geotagging their photos, and more cameras come out with built-in GPS/geotagging capabilities, we will see a lot larger number of photos. The idea of showing rated photos is a particularly useful concept and will become important as we get larger numbers of photos geotagged." He also mentions Picasa 2.5 Beta photo geotagging capabilities.
Industry: Flickr and Yahoo Maps! Integration Coming
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The Neologies blog somewhat confirms Flickr and Yahoo Maps! is getting more integration. From the blog: "That panel prompted me to set my default geotagging permissions for new photos (that is, who can see the geotagging information). After selecting "Everyone", I was presented a map to which I could drag and drop photos, thus tagging them with latitude and longitude information."
loc.alize.us: Another Geocoded Photo Webmapping Tool
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Spatially Adjusted introduces loca.alize.us, another tool to map geocoded photos. The loc.alize.us website. From the blog: "On the heals of his Localize Bookmark for Flickr, Aemkei has released loc.alize.us using the Google Map and Flickr APIs. If you use his Localize Bookmark tool, your photos will appear almost instantly in the viewer. I think this is the best geotag browser so far."
Flickr Adds Geotagging 3 comments
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The Map Room and scrappad, along with Slashdot, discuss the addition of geotagging photos in Flickr. From the official blog: "There are a couple of short video tutorials (or "screencasts") which give the 90 second overview on how to geotag your own photos and how to use all the controls for searching and exploring geotagged photos. [...] But if you just want to jump in and start geotagging, open the new 'map' tab in the organizr and go for it. It's all drag and drop and easy to figure out. Since location information has its own privacy setting -- so you can keep the location the photo was taken private, even when the photo is public -- you'll be asked to set a default privacy setting before beginning."
Georeferencing Photos in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
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Ogle Earth tells us about the new feature in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 to georeference your photos. From the blog: "An address-based georeferencing tool? Why? And why just US addresses? Sorry, but that's not good enough. PSE5 should also map EXIF-based coordinate data, let you georeference globally by navigating to a spot visually, and allow you to export photos as EXIF or KML (much as Picasa 2.5 beta does). Maybe PSE5 does all these things, but if so they're not telling."
Sony GPS-CS1 Reviewed
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The Map Room links to a exhaustive review of the Sony's GPS-CS1 datalogger with photo geocoding by the Science Library Pad blog (with screenshots). The review's conclusions: "This device does a great job of easily and automatically recording your location, for later use in geocoding photos (or any other application where a GPS track would be useful). You may, however, want to use a different software package to do the actual photo geocoding; the software provided with the unit is incredibly basic."
Jelbert Hardware Photo GeoTagger 1 comment
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Slashdot links and discuss the recently launched Jelbert GeoTagger, an hardware device to geotag photos. From the website: "The Jelbert GeoTagger is a compact device, smaller than most flash guns, that uniquely connects to the camera flash show and follows the directions of the camera lens. Once fitted, it will record the precise location and direction of every photograph you take." Their geocoding is done using the not-included RoboGEO. Update: 09/27 16:00 GMT by S : The GEB tells us RoboGEO 5.0 has just been released.
Geotagging Photos Software Review 1 comment
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The Map Room links to a review of three software to geotag photos: TopoFusion, WWMX / GPS Visualizer and RoboGEO. From the WWMX / GPS Visualizer section of the review: "So you might be thinking why go through all this hassle. First, it is free. Second, GSP Visualizer has lots of options and can do almost anything: Google Maps, Google Earth, SVG or JPEG maps, topographic, aerial, street maps, all kinds of profile graphs, etc. And you can control the presentation in detail"
NY Times on Geotagging Photos and Flickr Map
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From the geowanking list and almost all geoblogs, the New York Times runs an article on geotagging and web mapping vizualization [registration required or this link]. From the article: "“The value may not be immediately apparent. But 10 years from now, nobody who’s geotagging their photos is going to regret it,” Mr. Butterfield said. “Most people have just one or two or three iconic photos of their grandparents. Now people are going to have tens of thousands of photos, and when that happens, every little bit of context helps.”" This topic has been featured several times on Slashgeo, make sure you read related stories below (see this main story).
Mac Geocoded Photo Software 'Geophoto'
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Ed Parsons was first to tells us about Geophoto, a geocoding photo software allowing geolocated photo browsing and sharing. From the site: "Using Geophoto, you can also fly through the pictures taken by a vast community of people around the globe, who share them through Photocasts or through Flickr: the "geotagged" photos that contain location information will automatically appear on the Earth." See the very numerous related stories on this story.
ShoZu: Seamlessly Taking Photos to Webmaps
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Ogle Earth has a nice entry on how seamless it is now to take pictures with a digital camera and put it on a webmapping site. From the blog: "[...] that holy grail of Nokia N95 usership: No-fuss uploads of just-taken, automatically geotagged photos to my Flickr account, viewable live by anyone via Google Maps while I'm still in the field taking pictures. [...] Basically, ShoZu is a conduit between all the photos and videos on your phone and the myriad of web services you can post them to. It does this by remembering your userids and passwords for each service, and then publishing the content you select via that service's API. It's free."
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(Score:1, Interesting)Everyone became interested in this overnight
(Score:1)Apparently Make had an Blo post about this, is that the reason?
RE: geocoding photos
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