Flickr GeoTagging
Wednesday November 1, 2006 at 2:58 am | Filed under Gadgetry, On the Web
Flickr has added maps. I wasn’t sure how this fit into the flickr I know and love but check this out. You can now “geo tag” your photos by assigning map coordinates to them, indicating to folks where the photo was actually taken. For example, I ate lunch last Wednesday at Los Sanchez Mexican Restaurant in Anaheim. I took a photo, yes of my food, with my camera phone and uploaded it to flickr. Today I went into the Organizr feature of flickr and placed it on a map giving it a geo tag. Flickr offers separate privacy settings so that not everyone can see your geo tags if you don’t want them to. I imagine somewhere down the road the option of adding GPS capabilities to your photos you take may be an option but for now you can manually add them for the photos you want. I’m not sure it’s a feature I’ll be using a lot, but it’s sure a cool toy to play around with.