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Nice, but the map resolution is poor for Europe. I have to lookup the details on Google maps.
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Regarding the precision of the geotagging...is there a way to tell how precisely the photos in question are tagged? Perhaps color coding the dot would be useful so that you could know how much the actual map location can be trusted.
I'd also like a way to place a a point precisely and then have it fuzzed for people not on my contact list as a refinement of geoprivacy. That way, I can use precise locations for friends and family and still let everyone else see at least what town the photo was taken in. Seems a little kinder than the all or nothing approach.
Lastly, when I bring up a map with all my photos, I find the paging requirement awkward. With several thousand photos tagged, it becomes impossible to get a geographic overview on one page of where they were taken. I'd really like all the dots that are in that particular map to show up even if I have to forgo knowing how many photos are in each dot until I click on the dot.
With that out of the way...great work on this. Hopefully yahoo maps will improve and the sluggishness will decrease, but this is a nice first step.
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Hi,
Just wanna quickly add:
Looks cool! Well done! But... Maps!
For the maps of China it really makes no sense to geotagg (though I did). The best for Beijing is a 2.5km view, which for such a big city just is no help for others to discover the city. Also all other major cities in China are not good.
If the maps are updated it rocks!
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London sattelite images just got updated, roads are still missing but it is a start!
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Hi, when I geotag photos by dragging them into a spot where nobody else seems to have any (the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in this case-- try Copper Harbor or Ahmeek), why do they not show up when I locate that spot using the search features on the world map and sort by most recent? Aren't they among the most recent by virtue of being the only ones there?
Okay-- not 5 minutes after posting the first message, these are findable, perhaps I hit an update cycle.
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I'd agree with all the comments regarding europe and the poor level of detail in the maps. It's almost pointless trying to add any to the city where I stay(glasgow) as the resolution is pretty poor especially in the city where I becomes a large sprawling mess.
I just hope it isn't to long before Yahoo upgrade us second class citizens ;-)
Love the new features though, perfectly designed interface for adding geotags.
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A couple of questions that may have been asked (apologies in advance):
1. Can I force the Organiser to pick up my geotagged photos? I used FlickrMap Geotagger to tag a photo, but the Organiser didn't pick it up/
2. Can you see the precise Geotag (latitude and longitude) that a photo was tagged with anywhere? I'd like to place my photo in the same place as someone else, but it doesn't seem possible other than to guess.
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Just another vote for EXIF-Reading.
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Yeah, None of my photos show up under the flickr.com/map page.
Check it out.
Flicker
Map Page
My
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The first time I went to maps, flickr automatically analyzed my geotags to create the maps.
Why I can't make the same thing for geotags I add later?
Yahoo maps for Italy are at very low resolution so I can't point well with it. I'd prefer to use greasemonkey scripts, but this way new photos are not added to maps.
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How long should the import process take?
I have at least two sets (and probably more):
www.flickr.com/photos/ac4lt/sets/216108/
www.flickr.com/photos/ac4lt/sets/209352/
that have tagged photos that haven't imported.
Since there's no feedback about the importing, I don't know whether there was an error or it's still running or whether the files were skipped for some reason.
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1. Can I force the Organiser to pick up my geotagged photos? I used FlickrMap Geotagger to tag a photo, but the Organiser didn't pick it up/
Yolise: That depends - at the moment, we have an import facility, but the script we use relies on your photos being tagged with: "geotagged", "geo:lat=x" and "geo:lon/long=y".
2. Can you see the precise Geotag (latitude and longitude) that a photo was tagged with anywhere? I'd like to place my photo in the same place as someone else, but it doesn't seem possible other than to guess.
We'll be exposing that information in a few more places soon... like the map popup you see on a photo page, and probably in the detail view of a photo...
We've also talked about being able to some other people's photos nearby in organizr, or maybe add a link like "add a photo to this location in organizr" around the Explore map...
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Just another vote for EXIF-Reading.
herrner: You can set Flickr up to read your geoEXIF stuff... is that what you mean?
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These two links should be in the FAQ :)
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None of my photos show up under the flickr.com/map page.
Chaz: That's a tricky one, with so many geotagged photos all of a sudden! It's a bit like trying to see your photos in any of the other public areas of the site, like most recent uploads, or the interesting photos from August 28, or even search results for that matter. It's an issue of sheer volume when you're just looking at an unqualified view of everyone's geotagged photos...
We're thinking up ideas about how to present geotagged stuff in other contexts, rather than the big ol' bucket of everyone's... like geotagged photos within groups.
I think tagging photos becomes even more important to discoverability here... "I'd like to see photos of Uluru in Australia" means you can either browse there using the map (211 photos), looking at everyone's photos, or you can search for the tag Uluru straight up (309 photos).
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Yolise: That depends - at the moment, we have an import facility, but the script we use relies on your photos being tagged with: "geotagged", "geo:lat=x" and "geo:lon/long=y".
OK, I'll try that next time, but like Finizio said, the first time I opened the new Organizer, it automatically parsed all the geotags, but then I added some to some photos, opened the Organizer and it didn't.
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Yolise, you actually have to run the import tool whenever you want to import the new ones... it's not automatic.
www.flickr.com/account/geo/import/
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Yup. That's not desperately clear though ;)
Thanks Brenda.
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Just for the records: Photos with NIPSA status don't appear under flickr.com/map/, but they can be found on the personal map. Could become a FAQ, too :)
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I'm not belabouring this or anything (just curious), but why did it work automatically when I opened the organiser the first time?
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I think you should change the way we page through images on the map. Looking at my ZIP code 20009, for instance, it says there are 7,601 photos, but the pink dots represent only photos from the first of 20+ pages. This is frustrating because my own pix are not guaranteed to be found without having to page through all 20 pages. Plus I would love to see the aggregate of all 7,601 photos. This 1st page shows 43 + "lots" photos. In this case "lots" equals 126, so the page has 169 images (I would also prefer an actual number over "lots"). To represent all 7,601 images in a single map, could you use 3-digit dots?
I'd rather be forced to page through results after selecting a dot than have to page through results just to see the dot in the first place. Clicking on a dot should give us the option to either zoom in to have it broken up into smaller dots, or to go to a non-map page that lists all the dot's images as a set.
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Got to agree with other comments made - I love the facility BUT the quality of the maps for anywhere outside of the USA are pants, really disappointing especially after you watch what the facility can do in your instructional video, then try to use the maps for the UK and you can't even get outline street details never mind anything closer than that.
I am simplyly aiming in the general area of where the picture was taken.
What makes it more frustrating is that I know there are better satalite images out there- Google maps has them!
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I'm not belabouring this or anything (just curious), but why did it work automatically when I opened the organiser the first time?
I think the idea was that Flickr released the new mapping thing, and by automatically importing the existing geotagged stuff, it saved everyone from having to do it all again. Then, once those were imported, everyone would then use the Flickr method to map their photos, so you wouldn't need to do the import function again.
'course, it's not working out that way, as plenty of non-US folks need to continue using alternate methods until the Yahoo map coverage improves. Hence, the ability to "import again" is given by that link. ;)
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Gotcha. Thanks Brenda!
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i have spent the better half of the past 48 hours tagging 1000's of my images. needless to say, i am totally consumed with this incredible new feature. you geeks really ought to be proud of this latest deployment. it really does crank.
but eye captain, you hit the dot on the head....
seeing a value within a dot is nice. but i would rather see all available tagged locations. perhaps indicated by a more generic or smaller dot (tick-mark) representing that 'some' images were taken there.
- all tick-marks in the DB would be displayed in each map view
- clicking the tick-mark would then load the larger value-dots
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I agree with seannarae. One thing I've noticed is that if I want to look for photos taken in say Laos, it shows nothing at any medium zoom level - this is because the majority of photos are in nearby Thailand or Hong Kong.
So to see photos in Laos, I have to zoom in really close and pan around the country , making sure not to get a big neighboring city on my screen.
I'd imagine this would be a problem with any rural area surrounded by big cities. Photos will be invisible unless you zoom in very deeply and then spend a lot of time carefully panning around.
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Is it possible for the geotagging function to also recognize city/country tags? I've been using flickrmaps and the way it works is you can tag with city/country for a vague location or get specific with coordinates. Some Images I just want to list as "London" while others I may want to take the time and place in a specific spot, but I would like all to show up on my map.
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Fantastic tool, I've spent quite a few hours over the last few days making sure photos were tagged to show a recent 8000 mile road trip.
But...
As the previous comments say, the way the number of photos at a location is shown is a bit awkward. Also the way photos at different location are lumped together when you're zoomed out too far is really annoying, could a different shape or color be used when photos from different locations are combined like this?
Other than that it's a brilliant tool for someone without GPS like myself.
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If I place an image on the map using organizr and then later tag it with lat= and lon=, will running the geo import function move the image to the location described by the lat/lon tags?
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but the best way to tag photos with GPS coords (besides actually having a GPS when shooting them) is to use the Picasa Beta with Google Earth.
The Picasa beta has the option of sending any photo to Google Earth for geotagging. From there, you just select the location using Google's excellent maps (compared to Yahoo's) and geotag. Now the GPS data is stored in your photo's exif data.
So if you enabled the "import GPS data" (not sure about the exact name) in your account page, any photo you post will have its location displayed by Flickr.
For previously posted photos, I geotag them on my PC and use the replace feature in the photo's page to post the updated file. And it's mapped immediately.
Hope this was useful for someone.
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So has anyone written a Greasemonkey script for replacing Yahoo! Maps with Google Maps in Organizr, yet?
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To elaborate on my previous comment: I think the Flickr side of this is great, but Yahoo! map data outside North America is really bad compared to Google’s offering. I realize that as part of Yahoo! Flickr doesn’t get to choose which maps service to partner with. However, from the point of view of the user (until Yahoo! improves its map service), integrating with Google Maps would be better. So there’s definitely demand for a Greasemonkey script.
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Question:
Should you geotag:
1) The location of the camera when the shot was taken?
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2) The subject of the photo?
For example, in this photo static.flickr.com/47/157270285_c5af746d3e_o.jpg would you tag the Empire State Building (Where the shot was taken from) or the Chrysler Building (the subject of the photo)?
Would other Flickr-ers prefer to know where to take a similar shot, or just the location of the subject, so they can find their own viewpoint?
When I was in NYC, I wanted to get a great unobstructed shot of the ESB. I knew it can be done, because I've seen loads of them, but I spent a whole morning trying to get a clear shot, but failed. If someone had tagged the viewpoint, it would have been a big help.
On the other hand, if someone else saw the picture and tried loooking for the subject where the viewpoint is, it could cause some confusion.
I'm stuck!! Please help!!
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väcäpinta: Good point.
Here's another example:
flickr.com/map/?&fLat=48.861698&fLon=2.325324&...
This is the highest zoom level which is currently available for the inner city of Paris. Even in this small area we find more than 11,000 photos. As we page through, on some pages there are a dozens of little dots at varying locations, on some other pages there is just a huge dot saying "lots", but it's impossible to get a complete overview. Even when you're on page 20 and you haven't seen a single dot next to Saint Lazare train station so far, this doesn't mean that there aren't any pictures. There might still be "lots" on page 25.
If paging has to be done (I do understand that there are immense amounts of data to be handled), at least please make it cumulative. That is, show the first 200 search results on page 1. Cache these results! On page 2, retrieve the next 200 search results and merge them with what is cached, giving 400 pictures on the map. Cache the totals. On page 3, retrieve the next 200 search results, merge them with what is cached, giving 600 pictures on the map. This still involves paging, but at least you'd get an increasingly representative overview with each page, rather than dots appearing and disappearing at random locations. I believe this approach would'n be much more expensive than displaying only 200 pictures on each page. You could even retrieve additional results in the background without user interaction, and incrementally populate the map when they become available.
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Should you geotag:
1) The location of the camera when the shot was taken?
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2) The subject of the photo?
If you have a GPS-enabled camera, or merge the photos with data from a GPS tracker, you would always get the camera location geotagged.
When I tag photos manually, however, I tend to enter the location of the subject. Some people even tag all of their photos with their home location, no matter where they were taken, but obviously that's quite off the mark.
Btw., look where the Eiffel Tower is located :)
flickr.com/map/?&tag=eiffeltower&fLat=48.863036&a... 00:00:00&map_type=hyb
The best solution would be to have two separate geotags, one for camera location, and one for subject location, similar to "date taken" and "date uploaded", but as far as I know the EXIF standard doesn't allow for that.
EDIT: The Eiffel Tower on Google Maps … *sigh*
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Mr. Last Minute,
I'm just the opposite...I always geotag based on where the photo was taken (to the best of my ability to reconstruct that), not where the subject was. I use the tags, title and description for the subject.
To my mind, some of the Eiffel Tower photos seem properly tagged in that they are photos taken from a distance and the geotag is hopefully in the vicinity of where they were shot. On the other hand there are clearly some photos taken in ro right next to the Eiffle Tower that are in the wrong spot.
Here's my reasoning for the way I geotag and I'll continue with the Eiffel Tower.
1. If I'm a kilometer away and take a photo of the tower, I want to know where I took it. I might want to go back there again. If I tag with the Eiffel Tower location, I can't.
2. If I'm in the Tower taking a scenic photo, just what location do I geotag? If I'm geotagging by subject, then what bit of landscape do I pick? If I just use the tower location then I'm not being consistent.
I don't think geotagging by subject makes sense because sometimes there is no clearly defined spot to use for the tag.
Anyway, that's just one opinion but that methodology seems to work for me.
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This may seem silly, but bear with me:
Say you've got two photos of a monument, one from each side, and you geo tag them as to the exact place you took them, ie 20 metres apart. If you now zoom out so that the organizr map shows one '2' blob, not two '1' blobs and drag a third photo onto that blob (to geo-tag it), what geo-data is that third photo given?
The most recent photo from that blob? The most recent added photo? The one closest to the one you drag&drop onto?
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I need to add another European voice into the "rubbish quality Yahoo maps" mix.
Here's an excellent comparison of the mountain Yahoo has to climb in it's non-US coverage: (yes my home town is under that greeny-yellowy blur somewhere!)
www.sergeychernyshev.com....
Until either (a) Yahoo come even partially close to catching up with Google or (b) Flickr gives a Google maps option (ha ha), I won't be using geotagging. It's a shame as it looks like a nice feature, but it really is utterly rubbish outside the US in it's current state.
Rant over.
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ac4lt - as a photographer you've got a valid point, of course. As a viewer, however, I might be looking for pictures of a particular building, and it's nice if I can just click on the map where the building is, instead of clicking on all dots in the entire neigborhood to see if somebody might have taken a picture of that building from half a mile away.
I said "I tend to enter the location of the subject". If it makes sense. If the location from where I took the picture seems more essential to me than the actual subject, I might use that instead.
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I'm one of the lucky ones: living in Toronto, I have been able to geotag photos to very specific points. Fun!
My issue is that when I drag the photo onto a point on the map, it sometimes pops over a couple of blocks from the target. Even if I try moving it several times, I can't get them where I want them! Are there only certain spots on the map where photos can be locked on? I notice that the photos tend to glom together into groups even if I placed them several blocks apart...
www.flickr.com/photos/greentea/map/
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Mr. Last Minute, I see what you're point also. I guess it comes down to a question of how do people find things, especially in an essentially free form tagging system where there isn't much, if any, enforced structure.
To my mind, I like the idea of clicking on the link like the one you had for the Eiffel Tower and seeing the scattering of photos from different locations that all have the Tower as the subject. Of course, in practise, that's not exactly what shows up.
Your idea of two geotags, one for "photographed from" and one for "subject location" might work. Or least adding that attribute to the existing tags so you could know which type of geotag the person created.
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Has anyone else had problems importing geotags?
I've got a dozen or so sets that all have geotagged photos in them that aren't getting picked up by the import process. Many, probably most of my geotagged photos have been imported, but for some reason, a bunch haven't.
Here's just one example of a photo that hasn't been imported:
www.flickr.com/photos/ac4lt/8707535/in/set-216108/
So far as I can tell it ought to have been. Anyone have a clue?
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I have a weird problem... I open up Map and nothing happens.. it stays blank. If I open any of the links to Map I've found in the FAQ and Forum sections it opens blank. I've even tried links from friends and it opens blank... I use Firefox & MSIE and it's the same in both. I have some geotagged photos already..
Anyone else with this problem. Am I missing something really basic? So far i've yet to even see this wonderful new tool... I'm a pro member located in Canada, is this perhaps a US only option?
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my photo is public - I want to geotag it but keep the location private.
Is this possible?
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When will you fix the organizr to work with the opera browser? I can force it but it is very clunky and slow. This is a neat feature I just wish I could use it.
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I imported some geotagged photos, but not all of the tags were picked up and about one third of the photos ends up in wrong location on the map. The strange thing is that the place name listed beside the MAP link to the right if the photo is the correct one, but it shows up on the wrong place on the map? It seems to me that the import process must have gone wrong, because a new photo I uploaded just now ended up in the right place. Can I reimport all geotagged photos again?
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Is there a way to bulk move tags? I tagged a group of photos in one spot in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. I then looked at the map and decided they were in the wrong place (it doesn't help that the photo for the Snowy Mountains was taken in winter, so there is an almost undifferentiated blob of white for an area about the size of Switzerland, and no place name indexing). Is there a way of doing a select all, so that you can drag all photos on one spot? I had to do an individual drag for about 12 photos to where Perisher really is (and I am still thinking about Charlotte Pass).
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ac4lt - I can only guess that the importer might have choked on the "Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center" tag, since none of your photos with that tag seems to appear on the map. I'd try to temporarily replace it with something shorter and then re-import.
caribb - if you have an ad blocker, or firefox set up to load images from the originating web site only, whitelist yahoo's map servers.
p.&a. - you can set the default geotag privacy in your account settings, and that of individual photos in organizr.
iansand9876 - select as many as you want in the Findr, and drag them to the map from there.
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iansand,
mr.last.minute is right. just locate them in organisr, then drag them to the map as if they're not already geotagged.
flickr informs you that X of X images already have geodata, and asks if you want to update them.
if you want finer granularity than that, simply update the LONG and LAT values within just 1 of the images. once that 1 image is 'separated' from the batch, you can drag the batch to the new locale.
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Thanks, Mr Last Minute, but I wanted to drag them across the map without using the Findr. I know I can use findr, but that means opening the set in Findr, selecting them and dragging. No biggie, but a "select all" feature on the map and then a drag would be a lot simpler.
It is possible to drag individual images without going into Findr, so why not all of the images in the same location?
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You can: Click and drag the dot without releasing the mouse button.
Feature request: Mark a rectangle on the map with the mouse to select all the photos within that recangle, as if they had been individually selected in Findr.
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when I first saw the announcement for this new feature, I thought, "what on earth would I want that for?". of course I'm now utterly addicted to it. serves me right.
I love the ease of use, and as for the somewhat lacking map data outside north america, I'm finding it stupidly entertaining to place my photos in the approximate location and then use google to check how far out I was.
but I do have to agree that the way you've implemented pages of pictures on the map is very, very confusing. not that I have a better suggestion, unfortunately.
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Mr. Last Minute...interesting observation on the tag. I don't think that's it, but I'll try it to make sure. The reson I don't think that's the culprit is that another set of photos that got entirely skipped had only very simple tags, like this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/ac4lt/8474838/in/set-210437/
My first thought was that perhaps it stopped at the first problem photo, but photos that were added before that were imported properly. But, a big block in the middle were skipped over.
It's a puzzlement, but one fhat's gong to have to wait for some sleep since I have to be at work on time tomorrow morning. :)
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A reply to myself. I removed the pics from the map and reimported them and now they appear in the right location. Great!
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Okay, I'm stumped. I was able to work with maps at a computer at work, but I can't get the maps to load at home. I'm not talking about pictures, but the map itself. The map won't load when I click the map link on my photo page or when I go into Organizr and click the map tab.
I went over to Yahoo maps and the maps work there.
I have IE 6.0 and Windows XP home, am I missing a plug in or something?
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For the Non US users there are a number of options to get more detailed geotagging using Google maps and satellite imagery. A great little bookmarklet which works off your Flickr page and adds the geotags and a customizable link can be found at :-
labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_geocode_bookmarklet/
to quote from the web page "....enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page. It works with all common browsers without the need for any extension."
And now there's also built a viewer
loc.alize.us/#/geo:0,0,2,k/
which I have started to play around with and has a subtly different GUI
Hope that helps.
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Jerry: I have IE 6.0 and Windows XP home, am I missing a plug in or something?
I normally use firefox, but just tried IE6 and it worked fine for me. Try going to the Tools / Internet Options menu and then deleting the temporary internet files. Maybe that will get things working.
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@Jerry: If you are using an ad blocker, or Firefox set up to display images for the originating website only, you have to whitelist the map servers us.maps1.yimg.com, us.maps2.yimg.com, us.maps3.yimg.com.
@flickrstaff: Is this the complete list, or are there other imaging servers involved in addition to these?
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I added some photos on my street in Stormville, NY (a village); yet when I view a picture from this street, the location given is "Dutchess, NY", which is the name of the county; (go to the village listed above, then drag upward until the center of the map is just south of the 90-degree turn in Interstate 84. There should be a dot near the center of the map showing at least 30 photos).
There should be a way to edit the "Location Taken" information. If there already is, I'm missing it or something.
Oh well, just expressing my feelings, what an excellent tool! I was browsing the map with everyone's photos, and saw quite a few taken from around the area I live in. But nobody but me lives there... I'm lonely...
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Grant Leavitt edited this topic 70 months ago.
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Feature request: If the photo has IPTC:City / IPTC:State / IPTC:Country fields, display these instead of the (often erroneous) place name retrieved from the geo coordinates.
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my photo is public - I want to geotag it but keep the location private.
phillipe & angie - Yes, that's possible... You might like to skim the "Geotags & You" help video to see how to do it:
flickr.com/help/screencasts/vol1/
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It looks like the importer is only handling a certain number of photos before it stops. I deleted some tags from photos that got successfully got imported and then ran another import. Suddenly, a few more photos got imported.
I know I had a bunch of geotagged photos, but it would be nice if the importer were a bit more robust (or at least a little more informative so we could tell what was going on).
Any chance of getting that limit removed or increased?
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As a follow up to my previous post. If the limit can't be easily changed, how about an option on the importer to delete the geotags as they are imported? Then, at least with a couple of iterative imports, they should all get imported and I was planning to delete the now superfluous tags anyway.
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Okay, this is weird. I recently uploaded scans of a couple of family photos taken in 1906. After I uploaded them, I edited the date and time information to the day in 1906 when they were taken. Now, when I try geotagging them, they don't show up on my map or the public map. They don't even show up on the Organizr map when I drag them on to it.
However, if I click on the map link on one of the photo pages, the photo shows up on the map. But only that photo -- the other photos don't appear even though they're all located together.
The really weird part is that if I change the dates back to 2006, they all suddenly show up on every map!
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@guyfisher: In the bottom right corner of the map there is a button saying "Link to this". Click that. Now you'll find a long, long URL in your browser's address bar, ending with "min_taken_date=1970-01-01%2000:00:00". Change that to "min_taken_date=1900-01-01%2000:00:00", and there you are :)
@flickrstaff: This had to happen sooner or later. Although Unix programmers tend to think so, the world was not created in 1970 :-P
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Can someone help me out?
I tried to use Google Earth geodata, but when I use the data to geotagg my picture it is 60 km on a wrong place.
The maps for Europe a pretty bad, so I went to Google Earth, zoom to my place where I want to place my picture, make a placemarker, look at the properties and transform for example 51°18'53.75"N into 51.185375. But it doesn´t work. :-(
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That's because 1° = 60′, not 100′ :) and thus 51°18′53.75″ = 51.3149306°.
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OkiDoki - many thanks
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Nice funtion indeed...
but it messed up my account and there is very little I can do right now. So please help.
Few days ago I geotagged most of my shots. The geotagging itself worked just fine. No problems there. But after that I noticed that I can't access those geotagged photos no more. I can't go to organizer. I can't go to my main page (the you see after going trough "you" link). It's very much stopping me for using flickr.
I have tried clearing up my cache. I have logged out and in. I have used Firefox, Opera and IE. Nothing seems to help. And I can't even remove any of those geotaggings.
I'm simly stuck and I feel myself little stupid that I used that function to so many photos when idea is still so new.
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Fantasyfan edited this topic 70 months ago.
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This map thing is a great idea. But ...!
In Germany you can´t find many towns and villages.
You upload 100 photos, and the system tells you, you have uploaded only 50.
Trying to find the photos by using Yuan.CC Maps, you find your photos in the north of a town, but you took them in the south. I.e., the Yahoo Map doesn´t show any streets (Or am I too stupid to find them?).
I think, this Yahoo map is not very accurate and comfortable. I really would prefer Google Earth.
Why can´t I put a set of photos on the map? It´s frustrating to put one photo by another to the map.
I won´t use this map any longer. But I am hopeful, you will find a solution with another map than the Yahoo one!
Good luck!
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Why can´t I put a set of photos on the map? It´s frustrating to put one photo by another to the map.
If you use Organizr you can select a batch of photos from one of your Sets or whatever, select them all and drag them onto the map in one go, but, they will all be in exactly the same location. Alternatively, if you have already geotagged your photos you can use the Import link in your account www.flickr.com/account/geo/import/
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@Fantasyfan: There are known issues with organizer, but they didn't change anything about the photo stream page, so I don't think that problem is related to geotagging. I know that doesn't make it any better for you :-/ Perhaps you'd start a new thread for that?
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Mr. Last Minute, thanks for the hint about the min_taken_date URL parameter that's filtering out my historical photos.
At least I can link to my map in a way that shows all of my photos. Of course they still won't show up on the public map or any of my maps that are accessed through links on flickr.
I hope that flickr removes or changes the min_taken_date parameter. Geotagging is a great tool for genealogists and local historians to add context to their historical photos. This kind of ruins it, though.
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Mr. Last Minute - Thank you but I still think that it's related because I can still access those photos that I haven geotagged. And I can't see my "main page" because most of the photos in that page have been geotagged.
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Ok, I didn't notice that they actually changed the photo stream page as well and added little "map" links. Sorry, you're right.
What does "I can't see my 'main page'" mean exactly? What do you see instead? Does the page load when you disable Javascript in your browser? Did you try a forced reload by pressing Shift-Refresh or Control-Refresh?
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Mr. Last Minute edited this topic 70 months ago.
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@guyfisher: You don't have to be a genealogist or historian to hit the limit. Even photos from my own junior high school years wouldn't show up on the map :-/
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FantasyFan: I can see your page and your map. Have you blocked yahoo at all? I think there's been some issues about popup and ad blockers getting in the way. See the bugs thread.
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Let me add my own request for the ability to pick up the lat and lon from exif information, without necessarily requiring decimal format, eg. Picasa's 035,23.72N and 024,59.58E format should work.
Also, I've been using the IPTC location field and wishing for some time now that Flickr would read that - it contains important information in my photos. Could you enable that at the same time?
Thanks for all this good stuff.
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Mr. Last Minute - As main page I mean that page that opens from the "you" link from the top frame. It only loads that top frame whene there are geotagged photos and it stops when it should load those photos. I have this same problem with all three browsers (Firefox, Opera and IE) and only Firefox is modified of these. That same problem occurs also when I'm logged out.
I did disable javascript and it worked to my suprise. But without it I can't remove (or can I somehow?) my geotaggings that are messing things up. And I do wonder that am I the only one with this problem and why is it?
Spidrwergian - I haven't blocked anything from yahoo itself, but I do have pop-ups stopped. It that the thing that is causing problems?
Posted 70 months ago.
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3e
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I'd just like to insert a PAUSE FOR MAINE LOBSTER right here:
This is the sort of wonderful thing you can now do in Flickr.
Posted 70 months ago.
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Also, when I geotag a photo using the map in organizer, then double-click on that photo, I don't see the coordinates under location. Nor can I find the coordinates anywhere.
Unfortunately, the only way I can see the actual lat/lon is to use the api. I would expect to see it in several places other than organizer/location. For example, when looking at a detail view of a photo on a map.
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is there or will there be a way to select which photos we want to import?
I've been using the bookmarklet bigeoino linked to above to get more precise location information. as it will take me a while to get everything tagged that I want to tag, but I can't wait to see the ones I've already done on the map, I've been hitting the import button whenever I've done a batch. but if I understand correctly, every time I do that, all my geotagged photos are imported, including the ones that already have been - and the only way I could prevent that is to remove at least the "geotagged" tag from the ones that I've already done?
apologies if you've already discussed this somewhere (if so, I missed it), but I think it would make sense to have an "import location information" somewhere in the batch organising options.
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As far as I can see, any photos that are already on the map are automatically skipped by the import process.
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@FantasyFan: I don't think it's the popup thing. I would use the Help by Email link to request flickr removes all your Geotags from the database so you can start again.
One last thing. Have you tried uploading a number of "test" pictures to see if that unfreezes your photostream?
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@Fantasyfan: Before that, try a forced reload with Ctrl-Refresh or Shift-Refresh, depending on your browser.
If you happen to be behind a caching proxy that has a bad copy of some javascript, clearing the browser cache won't help at all. You would just retrieve the bad copy again from the proxy, and you get the same bad copy with every browser, thats why none of them works any more. A forced reload bypasses both the browser cache and the proxy cache (unless the proxy itself is broken) and ensures you get a fresh copy directly from flickr.
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Mr. Last Minute - thank you about the idea of forced reload. That actually worked :D Now I can use my account normally like before. Actually I'm little ashamed not think about it myself.
Spidrwergian - I didn't do that yet, but I'm happy my problem is solved for :)
And now.... back to my flickr routine.
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Just wanna drop a comment on the map data quality: The regions I used till now are oke. Switzerland is not yet high quality, but that's Google Earth&Maps neither.
But: The region Firenze/Pistoia and parts of the toscana are highest quality on the yahoo maps, but very poor on google's.
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I don't understand where the geotags are for the images that are tagged with flickr. Because the lat en lon do no show up in my tags.
I am only able to see the images in the official flickr map. Only the ones i tagged with lat and lon not using flickr show up in external maps
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@mafo: the "geo" tags in the actual tag space were just a hack to store the location somewhere, in the days when flickr didn't support native geotagging.
You can still add them yourself if you want (and there are tools to retrieve flickr's location info and create "geo" tags), but tags are the member's property, and the system does not (and should not) automatically create any entries here.
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Mr. Last Minute, I actually want my lat and long information to be visible, so that i can copy and paste it to search for the location in other programs, such as google earth. (In fact, i'd really like to be able to pick up both lat and long in a single cut and paste, but that's another issue.)
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A housewife trying too bake a cake with a recipe like this yahoo-map stuff would let her family starve.
I am really angry about this program. Most of all because so many towns and places in Germany cannot be found. Therefore, for me this program is worthless.
And I am dreaming of the day, when this map program will integrate my photos by using the photo tags and without making me do all this work, I´d have to do today.
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Thanks to bigeoino for the link to the bookmarklet. As a result of the much better maps available there I realised that the images I had taken at of my house and very carefully added to the Flickr Map (using the Yahoo hybrid feature as well because the map wasn't detailed enough) had all been located slap bang in a river. So I changed the location using the more accurate Google maps and the bookmarket. Neatly done, easy. But back to looking at them in their new location on the Yahoo maps.... where are my images now...? Apparently my house is in the middle of one of the busiest motorways in the country. (I'm not going to reveal my address by demonstrating...).
Lovely feature but..... slightly invalidated by the poor quality of the maps
It's far worse for my images from Africa.......
Finally, my images are a bit spread out around the world. I'd just like to echo some of the comments made here that it would be really really nice to have all of them appearing on one page at one time so I can see the entire overview of everywhere I've taken pictures. The page 1, page 2 etc system sort of ruins that.
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r12a:
Let me add my own request for the ability to pick up the lat and lon from exif information, without necessarily requiring decimal format, eg. Picasa's 035,23.72N and 024,59.58E format should work.
Also, I've been using the IPTC location field and wishing for some time now that Flickr would read that - it contains important information in my photos. Could you enable that at the same time?
Does that Picasa format work? It doesn't even work in Google Earth. Flickr Map requires a format of decimal degrees and Google Earth requires either Degrees, Minutes, Seconds separated by spaces or decimal degrees. If Picasa formats as ddd,mm.mm then it is a very unconventional format.
Flickr may not be able to read and convert IPTC Location field into geodata, but, it can read and generate tags from the IPTC Keywords field. You may be better off using Google Earth to get all the geodata in decimal degrees format including tilt, heading and range, incorporating it in the IPTC data, uploading to Flickr so generating the correct geotags and then using the Import button linked to in your account page to position all geotagged photos to the Flickr Map. You'll then be able to view them on Google Earth, Flickr Map and have geodata as tags which can easily be edited.
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I need some help understanding what's going on here.
First, look at this photo. Click on the map link under Additional info, then the "View marktranchant's map" link.
Depending on zoom level, you should see either two or three photos of mine from the area.
Now pop up the filters, and change the user filter from marktranchant to "-- Select a user --" - which should select everyone's images, including my own.
My photos are no longer shown. In fact, I cannot find those three photos on the map by any method except via the link on the photos' pages. Location info disclosure is set to "anyone".
If you want to experiment with the map, the search term "Bonriki" finds the atoll in the expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
The system works as I would expect in less exotic places, like France.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
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Mark Tranchant edited this topic 70 months ago.
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Location Suggestions"
Say you have some pics I have no idea where they where taken.Ex: A cafe you stopped in your vacations.
think it would be cool to allow users looking at a photo lacking geotags to "suggest" a location to the photo owner using a map ui. The photo owner could then "accept" the location.
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@jmoliver - and also for corrections, greater accuracy etc. I recently came across a large collection of photos dumped in a single place in the south of France which should have been spread over much of the area.
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They can always use Flickr Map or Google Earth or whatever, copy the coordinates and use the comment box under the photo. It's up to the owner then to add/change the tags.
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I agree with @edge of the borders - there seems to be a difference between the locations on the streetmap and the satellite image - all my google geotagged ones work fine in satellite view but are out of synch in the map.
(I recognize that this is a Yahoo map issue rather than a Flickr issue but all the more reason to keep the API open and NOT locked down to the Yahoo maps.)
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3e
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Is there any way to batch-operate over photos taken at a certain location, or within a certain bounding box, other than using the API?
Ideally, in the List view of the map, I'd like to see an "edit these photos in a batch" link...
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We'll be adding more batchy goodness :)
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