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http://www.blockrocker.com/flickr.php
Have a look. Its a pretty cursory implementation.
Usage and notes:
1. Click the sign in link to give Blockrocker permission to write tags to your photos on Flickr. Flickr handles the sign in - BlockRocker never sees your password.
2. The BR page will load your most 100 recent not geotagged phots. If you have a picture tagged "geo"-anything, it will not load here, assuming that its already been geotagged. Note - I do not store your pictures, and this sevice doesn't load them or your info onto BlockRocker.
3. Click a thumbnail that you want to geotag.
4. It will now appear above the map.
5. Work the map (zoom, pan, etc) until you have the location of the photo and click to generate tags. You can click as many times as you want, and new tags will be generated each time.
6. When you're happy with the location, click "Save these Tags to Flickr"
7. The page will reload, and that thumbnail will no longer be shown. If you look at the picture on flickr, it should be nicely geotagged.
Now - this functionality is new, and likely shaky, so your help testing would be appreciated. Please note that it can't do anything bad to your photos (other than add tags) - I only have "write" permission, not delete. Also, as mentioned, I'm not capturing or storing any of your information - nothing used on this page touches the Blockrocker database or anything.
Finally - I built this blind to use myself, and to gain experience with the flickr api. I don't know if anyone else out there has a similar tool, and if my app resembles someone else's, please accept that its not intentional - just a form-follows-function sort of thing.
Looking forward to your feedback,
Best regards,
-Rod.
Originally posted at 4:25PM, 11 May 2006 PDT
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dreadsword edited this topic 38 months ago.
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Two notes:
1. I just rejigged the map code so that it reloads to the map view you were just looking at each time you save tags - so, you should be able to tag photos near to each other rapid fire.
2. I used windows desktop photos to test it out - you can view blockrocker tagged output in my stream here:
www.flickr.com/photos/27734159@N00/144731461/in/photostream/
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Pretty cool. This is the first site I've seen that pulls the non-geotagged photos specifically. That's a good idea.
Posted 39 months ago.
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Great tool.
But I would like to be able to select other pics past the 100 mark, maybe by passing the set's name or a tag?
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@Halans, you can do that with maps.yuan.cc where you can select photos by tag and user.
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Looks like the Blockrocker page is now :
www.blockrocker.com/service_flickr.php
Posted 38 months ago.
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Yes - thanks for posting the update, pascal.
--Rod.
Posted 38 months ago.
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Update - the tool now handles photos with apostrophe's in their title. Next targets are map type retention (i.e.: satellite, hybrid, etc), and an optional "crosshairs" yuan-style mode.
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kyot [deleted] says:
Well. With a bit of prompting from dreadsword (I guess) I've geotaged some posts in my blog and they now show up in Technorati and from there to blockrocker. as so my geotagged pics.
This is excellent and really coming together.
just thought I'd say.
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UPDATE
The BlockRocker geotagging tool now retains map state (satellite, etc) when you tag a photo or do any other operation.
www.blockrocker.com/service_flickr.php
Next target- an optional crosshairs mode.
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Looking good dude, a small question, can you set up so that the google map link is matched to the viewing mode you are in. Currently it still default to map. Keep up the good work
SM
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spud murphy edited this topic 38 months ago.
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Hmm i've tagged some photos with blockrocker, but then they are not appearing in blockrocker when im browsing the map.
eg this photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/iantomey/80410290/
is not appearing here:
blockrocker.com/index.php?pcat=70&platt=51.56&plo...
appears correctly in flyr:
flyr.whatfettle.com/maps?text=seaside+couple+leigh-on-sea...
Cheers
Ian
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Thanks Ian - the problem with that photo is that it was uploaded in January. Well, the problems not with the photo, but with the API - it lets me pull photos by date taken or date uploaded - but not date "updated" - i.e.: I can't pull a photo from January that had tags added in June without just going back and redoing January.
So - every few hours I check for newly uploaded geotagged photos on Flickr. But I only go back in time once every week or two to check for older photos that have been updated because its a massive batch of API calls and I'm afraid Flickr will throttle me or get tired of me hogging their resources.
This also has to do with a documented API bug that will only let you return up to 5000 results from the "search" api call... annoying to work around.
Anyway - that's a pretty lousy, fragmented explanation, but hopefully it makes sense. Thanks for using BlockRocker!
I'll initiate a "deep search" right now and see if I can't get your pics up thought - thanks for the heads up.
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spud murphy - thanks for the suggestion - its been implemented! Enjoy.
Also go rid of the map state browser alert (sorry about that - that was a debug thing), and switched the number of photos per page back to 30.
More to come as time permits...
--R
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One more thing...
If anyone's interested, there's now geotag generators for YouTube and Del.icio.us as well:
www.blockrocker.com/service_youtube.php
www.blockrocker.com/service_delicious.php
--Rod.
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To lan & dreadsword
There's a simple way to have THAT photo indexed by blockrocker. Just change the posted date of it to current time. You can change it back after being pulled into database. Of course, this is not a systematic solution. But for a particular missing photo, I think it's acceptable.
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Thanks CK - I appreciate your help. Figuring out the API and the way it all works is quite entertaining!
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to .CK:
yeah thats fine if you know about it :)
i see a bit of a problem if people (like me) discover geocoding then go back and geocode their images then don't see them. ive got a whole bunch more that need adding at the moment.
though when everybody does it, perhaps the problem will be one of relavence or repetition. i mean if i geocode 300 images ive taken at a gig, wading through that is a problem, its bad enough now with flickr search.
thanks for putting them up dreadsword :)
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have a look at this discussion, i think this tool is even a little cooler :)
the map is integrated directly into the page of a single photo. a street/address search form to find the desired place is integrated into the flickr page as well. geotagging the image only takes few mouseclicks.
www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72157594165549916/
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