Slashgeo

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.

Mark Zeman writes "Flickrmap.com is a web service that launched last week allowing you to put a flash based world map on your own website or blog. Flickrmap will then automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Flickrmap, on your own website. It's as simple as tagging your Flickr photos with a city and country name! Flickrmap also supports photos that have been geotagged or photos that have location data encoded in their EXIF properties. There's a rapidly growing community of Flickr users who add location information to their photos, with over 95,000 geotagged photos at Flickr."

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.

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."

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."

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."

The Geobloggers blog details the new TagMaps from Yahoo! Research Berkeley, combining webmapping and tags with photos and more. From the official page: "The World Explorer is a new and (we hope) exciting way to explore the world while browsing real users' public photos, using TagMaps. The Explorer is based on photos users upload to the Flickr website. The World Explorer engine analyzes the information tied to the photos (such as location and tags) to find the main "attractions" in each location and in every zoom level and compute their "importance"."