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Geotagging and viewing NZ pictures on a map
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Geotagging pictures makes them able to be found by people looking at a map and also allows going from the picture to a map of where it is. So for an encyclopaedia of NZ pictures, geotags are really useful.
Although flickr provides map facilities, when it comes to looking at a map and finding pictures there are some other slightly better tools, for example this map of NZ allows searching by latest or most interesting and zooming anywhere in NZ. Note that when there is more than one page of photos, the map only shows the current page and you must press >> at the bottom of the photos to see the next page full.
By hovering over a map location you can see a picture from there and by hovering over a photo you can see where it is on the map. You can also search by people who posted photos or by tags. If all pictures in this group had a tag of TeAra (for example) then they could be selected very easily.
Originally posted at 4:20PM, 9 March 2009 PDT
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Ray Tomes edited this topic 39 months ago.
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Hi Ray,
We've been looking at geotagging for quite a while. In fact we just did a blog post about it...
blog.teara.govt.nz/2009/03/04/retrospective-geotagging/
We will be going through and geotagging our images on flickr over the next few months hopefully.
We are tagging our photos on flickr with Te Ara, but we don't ask people that submit photos to our group to tag them. However we would love it if people did tag their images with Te Ara.
-Heath
Lead Designer @ Te Ara
Posted 39 months ago.
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Try Panoramio. Links with Google Maps.
Posted 39 months ago.
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Thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into it!
Emily
Resource researcher @ Te Ara
Posted 39 months ago.
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Hi Emily
I'd be happy to tag photos submitted with 'Te Ara' but would you like us to tag them even though they have to be approved by an admin first? Then, if not approved, the admin can remove the tag. I see Heath would like this.
Incidentally, I try and geo-tag all my pics (except personal ones) and add the better ones to Panoramio. Anything to show off our little paradise! :-)
Cheers
Sandy
Posted 34 months ago.
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Hi Sandy,
That's great. We are trying to geo-tag our stuff, all the recent material is fine to do when its uploaded but we have quite abit of a backlog of images to get through!
We haven't started to use Panoramio yet, but I imagine that once we have our images geo-tagged on FLICKR we can add them to Panoramio.
Yes, we are happy for images to be tagged with Te Ara. It helps when we search for them. Also, yes it would be very helpful if it was done beforehand. We accept about 99.9% of images contributed to our pool!
Thanks!
Emily @ Te Ara
Posted 34 months ago.
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