Great shot – where’d you take that?
Flickr has added easy geotagging to their UI. So far, I like it, but I have only made my locations visible to family & friends. The biggest compliment I can give it is that it is user-friendly. Simply click the “Map” tag under Flickr’s Organize function and you are presented with a nice Yahoo map. From here you can search for addresses or just drag photos directly on to the map. See the above blog entry for more details…
Seen on Lifehacker
I do have a few suggestions on how to improve this functionality further:
- Allow for naming of addresses and selecting by that name, i.e. not having to use the map, but just saying geotag as “Work”, “Home”, “School”
- Auto-geotag based on tags. For the tag, home, an action could be setup to geotag as the “Home” address automatically
- Fix the map to recognize all addresses normal Yahoo maps recognizes. I had at least two addresses that could not be found in Flickr, but could on Yahoo Maps
- Within the map, it would be nice to have a drop-down, or some such to select addresses that already contain geotagged photos and have the map refocus there