Flickr adds in built-in geocoding to photos

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Of definite interest to JBR & Gareth, and possible interest to every other geography fan on ILX, I noticed that Flickr finally added in built-in support for geocoding your photos.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, nice. So that supplants that earlier applet, then?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

i read that as "built-in genociding"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

So that supplants that earlier applet, then?

Yes it does. I'm vaguely annoyed that it uses Yahoo's map database instead of Google's, but I like the Flickr interface for adding photos several hundred times more.

I love that Flickr made it easy to convert your previously geocoded photos into the Flickr system.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Boy, the map part of the whole thing is flaky. How do you control scrolling properly?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Sampling of mine.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

wooo!

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

usa

england

london

― -- (688), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

though that really is the most extraordinary map of london i have ever seen, what on earth are those roads? did they make them up?

― -- (688), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Once again american cartographers knowing fuck all about london

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I did NOT need this. One more excuse to waste away hours moving little photo icons around on Flickr. Sigh. BUT WHEN I'M DONE MY PHOTOS WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL CONSTELLATION ACROSS ATHENS GEORGIA, MY GOODBYE PRESENT TO YOU MY CITY!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

So, being both a geographer and amateur photographer, naturally I love this feature. But I mapped this picture of a dead cardinal I took yesterday and it placed it in Barbara, Arkansas. THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE AS BARBARA, ARKANSAS! It also did the same thing to a couple other photos I mapped, making them appear to have been taken in McNair and Junction, AR, neither of which I have heard of. And you can't edit it. What's this all about.

― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I got a bunch of analogue stuff from DC done recently... from last year... I DON'T REMEMBER WHERE I TOOK IT LOL FUK U FLICKR

http://flickr.com/photos/richardgin/sets/72157594584965991/

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

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