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Cool. But ... :-)
I have a couple of photos that have geolocation EXIF data, like this one flickr.com/photo_exif.gne?id=62041640 for example. While the old geobloggers.com site displayed them properly, Organizr failed to import them to the map.
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There doesn't appear to be a link to geo/import under Your Account.
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Hi Mr. Last Minute - for the import script to work on your photos, they *must* be tagged with the following:
- "geotagged"
- "geo:lat=x"
- "geo:long=y"
There is another page you can use to make Flickr respect your geo exif information as you upload (but, that's separate from the import process).
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And Beej - that's right. We chose not to pop an explicit link there, because we thought the import would be more of a one-off... Here's a link:
flickr.com/account/geo/import/
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Another Safari bug: text typed into the Find a Location and Search boxes doesn't appear.
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jimheid - I've searched for a location in both the Organizr and Explore view of maps, and both times I see a list of potential results when searching for "brazil".
What exactly do you mean when you say "text doesn't appear"? Could you take a screenshot for us perhaps?
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Clicking on any of the links that lead to Robogeo
Ignore this, I thought something that was in someone's description was actually part of Flickr's new interface.
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Organizr is broken (no save button amongst other things) for me. Mac + 10.4.7 + Safari 2.0.4/Firefox 1.5.0.5. There are other threads detailing the problem.
There seems to be a Javascript problem at least in Firefox. "Error: _ge("one_set_batch_import_geo_link") has no properties
Source File: www.flickr.com/javascript/mat_one_set.js.v1.18
Line: 1" which makes me think the problem(s) is/are related to the new geo functions.
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3e - not sure what you mean by "links that lead to Robogeo"... More info please?
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jimheid- also- can you confirm that you are using 312.1 version of Safari? The current is 312.8, so can you try with the latest version (apple menu > Software Update..)?
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Clicking the Maps tab in Organizer crashes and quits Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.7.
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George, thanks for the link. That's good, at least for future uploads :)
I do have the "geo:something" tags on some other photos which imported fine, but I did not normally use them because they clutter up the tag cloud. So there is no way to automatically import these, even though the location info is there?
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Seems to work fine in Safari (2.0.4, v419.3) under 10.4.7 for me.
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Windows XP, Firefox 1.5
the feature is probably great but it freezes my Firefox 1.5 with the "loading..." message.
also suddenly every since this was implemented many other things stopped working under "Organize", for example when I select any Set that I want to edit then at the point it shows my pictures in the selcted Set it laso removes left hand side of the screen so that I can no longer see the title and so on but most importantly the "Save" button disappears hence I can't save my changes.
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the organizer is not working with omniweb 5.5 beta/mac since the changes
mac osx 10.4.7
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[misu] http://www.ipernity.com/home/tafka edited this topic 41 months ago.
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A good start to a cool feature! But I found myself wishing the Yahoo! mapping tool were more flexible in its input. I want to be able to input something like "west state street, ithaca ny" or "moscone center, san francisco ca" and have it find the location. (I even found a useful location for "rainbow flag, castro, san francisco ca" on Google Maps to figure out where one of my photos was on this month's trip.)
Instead, it gives up and just goes to the city level. It took me a moment to realize why you are using Yahoo! Maps instead of Google Maps (duh), but I hope you can push for such functionality. As it is, the Yahoo! Maps approach to this feature is cute but just not quite up to what I know mapping software can do.
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Do the 'hybrid' and 'satellite' modes work for anyone else? I just get blank maps (Firefox 1506)
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They work, but you possibly have to zoom out quite a bit. The maps and satellite pictures are not very detailed, compared to Google Maps.
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As flickr maps does not ad the geotags (geotagged, geo:lat=... geo:lon=...) and the maps of google have more actual photos I prefer using another tool to geotag my photos. So it would be great to have a button to import it to flickr maps on every photo.
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I do a search in organizr, hit 'add photos to the map', it tells me it's putting those photos into the findr for me... and then I get to the map, and there's no photos in there. It's empty.
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The fine control is a bit poor - I find it difficult to home in on an area. Also when zoomed out the counts are confusing. At one level the map says there are two pictures in Scotland - one in Peninver and one around Dundee. But if you zoom in you find lots of pictures closer together which the zoomed out map ignores.
It also took me a while to properly place rural pictures. The map shows no names but if I look at the photograph, the village location is shown there (if one has guessed correctly). Is there no way to check place names while in the organiser?
Pretty perhaps but I can see these maps getting crowded fast and with no street names outside the US and Canada (why does that surprise no-one?) what's the point?
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They work, but you possibly have to zoom out quite a bit.
No, I don't see a satellite view even when zoomed out all the way.
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@3e: Me neither. I don't see any satellite nor hybrid, although I zoomed out the most I can...
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You'll get plenty people saying this, but... Map detail in the UK and Ireland is pooor! The limit map-wise seems to be A-roads, and even they are jagged and inaccurate.
People in the UK and Ireland really need this... (although the satellite imagery is reasonable). We do have brilliant ordinance surveyors after all! Get Yahoo! on it!! :D
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spidrwegian- "But if you zoom in you find lots of pictures closer together which the zoomed out map ignores."
When on the map, do you see a widget in the upper left which reads something like "You're on page 1 of nn" ?
3e, individual8- re: Satellite/hybrid views- hmm, not sure why you would not be seeing them right now.
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The official geomapping system should respect the EXIF geocoded data that I've so carefully integrated in my photos. As far as I'm concerned the 'geotagged' data that is plopped into the keywords is a hack. The 'official' GPS data should be put into the EXIF GPS lat/lon fields.
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I do a search in organizr, hit 'add photos to the map', it tells me it's putting those photos into the findr for me... and then I get to the map, and there's no photos in there. It's empty.
"Add photos to the map" only creates a selection in Findr and switches to the map page. You are supposed to drag&drop them to the map yourself.
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jpski: Right; exactly what I said in the very first reply in this thread :)
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Mr. Last Minute: I agree with your post. As far as I'm concerned I think flickr should use:
1) the data from a geotag if it exists (a user has manually set the geotag, so that should supercede the EXIF data as it may have been generated automatically)
2) the geocoded data from the EXIF GPS lat/lon if geotags don't exist.
I should not be forced to use 'geotags' (i.e. geotagged + geo:lat=##.## + geo:lon=##.##) as that is not the 'official' location for GPS data in the photo. The keywords field should not be overloaded when it is not necessary... it shoud be purely keywords. Just because the community has plopped a hack on top of the keyword field doesn't mean flickr should standardize on that hack. They should adhere to the standard (EXIF lat/lon field) and take the hack into account when applicable.
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jpski: If I understand George's reply correctly, flickr does have an option to retrieve GPS information automatically on upload. It's just the import of existing images that fails here, which nevertheless is a pain for people who already have lots of photos with GPS data online.
Once imported, the location info is stored separately in the flickr database, btw.. I sucessfully removed the "geo:blah" tags from some of my images, and they are still on the map.
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After looking at the link posted by George (about this location), I'm glad to know I'm good for the future, but there should be an option on that page to scan for photos we've already uploaded too.
Aditionally, that should be provided as an option when Flickr 'asks' about your privacy setting for map data.
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Mr. Last Minute: BTW... the reason I'm so anal about all this is I'm in the process of writing some software for the Mac that will hopefully make the whole process of adding metadata to IPTC/EXIF much easier than current tools allow... I want to make sure that Flickr respects the proper metadata fields upon import.
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spidrwegian- "But if you zoom in you find lots of pictures closer together which the zoomed out map ignores."
Kevin- "When on the map, do you see a widget in the upper left which reads something like "You're on page 1 of nn" ?
So we're back to viewing only the most recent or the most interesting? If you are presented with 1 of 20+ you just have to keep clicking until you see something turn up in the vicinity you want?
Also if you drop photographs centred on names directly on the map they often get the next town or village. I had to move photographs around several times to place them in Ayr despite it being shown clearly on the map. That's frustrating. Finding a location is okay but unless the place name is shown on the map you are looking there's no clue where to drop your photographs.
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Is that popup supposed to show a map or something?
Maybe this is related to me not seeing any satellite views?
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Add photos to the map" only creates a selection in Findr and switches to the map page. You are supposed to drag&drop them to the map yourself.
But it doesn't create a selection in Findr, is what I'm saying. It takes me to map view with nothing sitting in the tray!
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@3e: Same to me...
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Dunno why, but I see satellite imagery in Opera. So that's a browser issue? I use Firefox 1.5.0.6 (Win XP) as my standard browser...
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3e/individual8: Perhaps the map hosts are being blocked. If you right click an empty map area in Firefox, do you see anything about that image host (*.maps*.yahoo.com) being blocked in the context menu?
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First: I love it. Thank you.
I found a bug, at least I think it is a bug. The group filter does not seem to work. I selected the Dragonflies group, and it did not seem to filter anything at all.
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It works great for me, but city reolution seems a bit off. This pic www.flickr.com/photos/mobob/227163971/ incorrectly states hull quebec, whereas this nearby one correctly states ottawa ontario www.flickr.com/photos/mobob/190949704/.
Other than that, all is awesome with me! XPSP2, FF 1.5.0.6.
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Kevin: YES! Thank you!
You're going to encounter this problem again - the very popular Filterset.G for Adblock is blocking your map tiles. Might want to proactively work with them to fix that.
Actually - I can have ben send him a note...
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@Kevin: Thx for the hint. Got it. In my case it's Adblock which blocks the loading of the images. I just disabled Adblock and everything works.
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Filtering by group doesn't work.
- go to flickr.com/map
- click on filters tab
- choose from your groups
- choose 'wildflower field guide, north america'
- click 'ok'
The window says 'You're looking at Photos from the Wildflower Field Guide, North America pool.' but it also says there are 191,000 photos here. I'm pretty sure what i'm looking at is all geotagged photos on flickr, not just the ones in my group.
using firefox 1.5.0.6
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spiderwegian- As you get closer in the map on a specific spot, you should have less pages to go through; but it is not any relation to 'interesting'. However, I see how Ayr vanishes as you get closer on your map. Will report.
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Seems like map views outside the USA don't reach a very detailed level, making it impossible to accurately place photos. I know you guys are part of the Yahoo empire, but this is one case where doing things all in the family is limiting you.
I am pleased to report that the few photos that I had previously geotagged did get their locations imported correctly. Nice touch.
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We'll check out the group filtering.
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This ...
flickr.com/search/?&s=rec&b=6.754016,51.44863,6.9...
works in IE, but gives a broken page for me in Firefox.
Btw., why is the results page titled "Photos taken in the Marienkirche neighborhood"? I don't know of a place called "Marienkirche" anywhere near that location.
EDIT — Page source ends abruptly in the middle of a div:
<h1>Photos taken
in the <b>Marienkirche neighborhood</b></h1>
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<div class="Switch"> </div>
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Kevin: As you get closer in the map on a specific spot, you should have less pages to go through; but it is not any relation to 'interesting'.
I'm not talking just about my own map but searching a location for all geotagged images. These are shown by default in "most recent" but can be toggled to view in "interesting" order. I'd prefer to see the images paged by grid rather than time or flickr's own model of what is "cool".
Looking on a zoomed out map there is no easy way to tell if there any photos for locations on the map unless of course they are recent or "interesting".
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More wierdness about group filtering.
I had the map zoomed in on the lower 48 US states and the map was apparently centered on kansas. The group search failed again in the same way but this time i clicked the 'switch to list view' link.
The first page of the list view displayed a bunch of photos which are proper results of the original group search and it said there are 199 results (which is probably right at this point). But the title of the page was "Photos taken in Kansas, United States". Clicking on links for other pages in the search gave results that looked like "all geotagged photos"
so, two problems:
1) another way in which group search is messed up
2) the title of search results in the list view for 'all geotagged photos' is misleading when the map is zoomed way out. Maybe in that case you could print the region name?
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The search on words returns sometimes unexpected photos. For example when searching for "bird", I see results with "ladybird" and also one of my own photos of a dragonfly which has the word "birds" in the description - sometimes the description becomes a small story.
Okay, I understand the cause, and it is probably intentionally done so. But it is not the best solution in all cases. The solution would be to have a choice to search on tags only.
So maybe this is not really a bug, but a request.
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This isn't really a bug, per se, but seriously Flickr/Yahoo -- did you have to make your navigation/zoom interface look exactly like Google's ... except BACKWARDS, so people will always end up zooming in when they mean to zoom out, and vice versa?
Is there any possible reason to do that other than to disorient people?
Also not a bug, but ... when you drag photos onto the map, the place you're going to tag it isn't where the mouse pointer is (where the balloon is), it's way below it, where the little circle is. That's really disorienting. Could you please make it so you don't have to look BELOW where your mouse is?
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It's not only Google ... practically every other map service (mapquest.com, stadtplandienst.de, and numerous others) has "zoom in = up, zoom out = down". That was actually one of the first things that struck me here ... "Doh! How stupid — it's all backwards, like the browse buttons in the photo stream!"
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Yeah that confused me for a minute too. Zoom in should be up and zoom out should be down!
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Darn! Flickr isn't smart enough to search in your photos not on the map (yet!).
This functionality is critical ...
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>backwards, like the browse buttons in the photo stream
Glad to hear I'm not the only one ANNOYED by that.
Flickr ought to pay more attention to consistency in spatial navigation. Pick an association between direction (up/down left/right) and time (older/newer) and stick with it in every context.
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There's a pretty bad memory leak somewhere in Organizr. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.6 on WinXP SP2. It seems to be triggered when drag-and-dropping photos to tag them. I was up to 1.15 gig for Firefox before I noticed.
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Firefox does that all on it's own, mind you. It used to easily get up to that sort of number on a regular basis. It isn't necessarily connected to Organizr...
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overall, SO COOL!
one small bug: i was in "map view" (for me personally) clicked "most interesting" and then switched to "list view", at which point it presented me with a list of "photos taken in baja, mexico", which seems wholly unfair, since i've never even been to baja, mexico!
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Brock said: Firefox does that all on it's own, mind you. It used to easily get up to that sort of number on a regular basis. It isn't necessarily connected to Organizr...
Some extensions are notoriously leaky, but my system has been stable without leaks until today while geotagging in Organizr. I regularly leave the process running for days or weeks. Most of the memory leaks in Firefox were fixed several releases ago.
In any case, there is a bad interaction between Organizr and Firefox. It's pretty obvious that Organizr/Firefox isn't releasing off-screen image tiles from memory when scrolling around on the map. Memory use is pretty flat unless you pan or zoom the map or switch between map, hybrid, and satellite views. BTW, it's not just Organizr. Any map interface in Flickr with Firefox is permanently claiming memory. The memory isn't released until the entire process is killed.
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I just want to second the comments about UK/IE coverage.
It's beyond poor, it's stone age!
I know this is a new system, and I love the idea... but living in a London Suburb, I don't want all of my photos saying "photo taken in London, England"... as that is a rather large area... (e.g. no differentiation between photos taken in the park up the road and photos taken at the Notting Hill Carnival...)
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Bug: Occasionally when zooming in on the map in Organizr, a collection of photos on the map will disappear, and the "You're on page" indicator will change to "0 of 0". When this happens, pressing the left-arrow page button changes it to "1 of 1", and the photos reappear.
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Being able to search for specific places (a la Google Maps) would be desirable... i.e. business locations, theme parks, etc... rather than just cities.
It's hard finding my way around cities I don't remember all that well (like Orlando).
Other than that, neat stuff.
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Like mobob said, city resolution in the "taken in/near" seems to be a bit off. Photos from near the northern end of Berkeley show up as Oakland, which is many miles away. And some of my Treasure Island photos say "in San Francisco," while others say "near" (they should all say "in").
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Great great stuff!
I've been mapping most of my photos and having a lot of fun. I have one suggestion though. I was using the great "All your photos not on the map" feature, and it would have proved more useful if it didn't reload my list of hundreds of photos everytime I mapped one. Just-mapped photos should be removed from the list without having to query the server.
Also I'd like to put in my vote for street level maps of Tokyo. Yahoo! has some of the best online maps in Japan (the competition just isn't quite there), and I'm looking forward to see them on Flickr! :)
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Hmm...no maps or satellite photos for Japan? Any idea when?
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The feature seems to be mostly useful for people in US. Lack of detail in the maps and satellite photos combined with weird naming makes this pretty much useless for me for anything shot in Finland.
And why on earth does Flickr use Portuguese names for locations in Finland? I live in Helsinki, not Helsínquia.
Actually it gets even funnier when I look at the map of the city - see www.flickr.com/photos/sulka/219338946/map?view=everyones
The images hanging in the ocean are in fact taken on land and I'm a bit baffled about the giant railroad in the city. This is Finland's capital! Nokia global headquarters are here, just drag the map a bit to see the spot (which, ooops, is not on the map and has wrong place name on the satellite shot).
Google Maps is not perfect either but most of the time I can at least use it...
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I agree! Map detail outside North America is outright pathetic!
For Switzerland for instance City resolution is so coarse that it's completely impossible to correctly place an image. I find it really sad that users outside North America still have to resort to third party geotagging tools,
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Helsínquia? Wow. And here I was about to complain about not living in Tammerfors but in Tampere. At least the former IS an official name for the city, albeit in Swedish instead of Finnish.
Seriously, east of the Atlantic, this service is useless. I know it's not the fault of the Flickr staff -- who have done excellent job with the Organizr tool and the import and everything -- but could you please kick Yahoo around a bit to get it together? It can be done right, as Google and others have shown.
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I cannot see any adjust or zoom level of the world map when in organizer mode
How can I place my photos if I can't manipulate the map?
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Mundoo: it's probably your browser. I'd post browser and OS version per the original post so it can be looked into.
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I'm having the blank maps problem. I think the Organizer is not beeing as smart as it could be while loading images. For example: If I open the Map Tab in the continent level zoom and zoom in up to street level over my city by clicking the "plus" button it seems to try to load ALL the intermidiate zoom level images. The Organizer should just imediately quit loading images from a view as soon as I'm not in it anymore.
Or maybe that was just me thinking too much.
Cheers and keep up the great work,
Marco
PS.: Firefox 1.5.0.6, Windows XP
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The location names sometimes are absurd. This flickr.com/photos/25029068@N00/62041091/ for example says "Taken near Oberhausen Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen". First of all, it is not taken near Oberhausen, but in Oberhausen. Second, the name of the city is simply "Oberhausen"; "Stadtkreis" is an administrative term, roughly translated as "county borough of Oberhausen", you would not normally specify that except in an administrative context. Third, the term "Stadtkreis" is only used in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, the correct term in Northrhine Westphalia would be "Kreisfreie Stadt". And if you specify it, it comes before the city name ("Kreisfreie Stadt Oberhausen"), not after. Oh, and finally … "Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen" is nice, but how does the average visitor know that it's in Germany without loading the map view and zooming out until the country names and borders appear?
On the other hand, this one flickr.com/photos/25029068@N00/43413131/ is ok: "Taken in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen", as it should be. Except for the missing country.
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This photo, located in Brooklyn, NY, is identified as "in Jersey City, New Jersey", a good 5 miles away.
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Scroll wheel behaviour is undefined when the mouse cursor is over the little map popup that is available from the "Additional information" section. Sometimes it zooms in/out on the map, sometimes it scrolls the entire page, and sometimes it even does both at the same time. (Tested with Firefox and IE6)
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It seems Geotagged photos are shown in reverse order of how they are arranged in say a set, when viewing them on the map.
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I think they are shown "most recent first", with an option to switch to "most interesting first".
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Not a bug, but a feature request: When I have a photo on the map and upload more photos of the same place, I'd like to have an option to say "same location as this", instead of dragging them to the map.
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Accuracy information doesn't seem to work. From the flickrBlog:
You can drag anywhere onto the map - a degree of "accuracy" is inferred by your current zoom level, so if you just want to show the city or general area a photo was taken, you can drag them on at a medium zoom level and those photos won't show up in odd places for people zoomed right down to street level.
I took one of my photos (easter eggs on my kitchen table), dropped it on "Europe" at the least detailed zoom level, but it has precise (albeit meaningless) location information. If you zoom all the way in, my easter eggs appear on the map in a tunnel underneath the Thyssen-Krupp steelworks in Duisburg.
(EDIT: It seems to have snapped to the big blob of photos that were already there and assumed the coordinates of a random picture from that collection.
When I drop a photo on a blank space, it disappears at a certain zoom level, so that does work. It's still too misleadingly precise, though. When I drop a photo on "Germany" and zoom in, I don't want it to appear at "Hamburg", "Berlin", or somewhere in the North Sea.)
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Mr. Last Minute edited this topic 41 months ago.
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still not working with omniweb 5.5 beta 4, mac osx 10.4.7
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Export as well as import. I couldn't find any geo tagging data in the web page or in the RSS for "My Photos". I was kind of expecting some microformat data in both of these. Same goes for API calls.
Are there plans to be able to get this data out of Flickr as well as put it in. Or did I miss something?
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It would be nice if it can be possible to see *all* our photos on the map (pages are not usefull)
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I tried zooming in on Black Rock City (the site of Burning Man). There are, predictably, a lot of pictures there and near there. What is odd is that I can get to the 2nd-to-closest zoom level and see "lots" of pictures, but if I zoom in any closer, there are none. I'm confident the picture locations aren't outside the frame, and I haven't seen this elsewhere.
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And another comment about the abysmal level of detail available in the UK, for which there really is no excuse. Google make this data freely available through their mapping API, even were there not several sources to by good qulaity uk maps from - surely it would have been better customer service to use a mapping system that has adequate resolution, or to wait on rolling out the service until it could serve more than just the US, rather than have Flickr look like it couldn't be bothered to do the job properly.
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What is odd is that I can get to the 2nd-to-closest zoom level and see "lots" of pictures, but if I zoom in any closer, there are none.
That's probably intentional, and related to the accuracy level depending on how precise people position their photos on the map.
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I have the same problem like "Gertrud K.":
As flickr maps does not ad the geotags (geotagged, geo:lat=... geo:lon=...) and the maps of google have more actual photos I prefer using another tool to geotag my photos. So it would be great to have a button to import it to flickr maps on every photo.
I have more than hundred photos geotagged with "geo:lon". I don´t want to change them all. Please fix your import-skript to import this tag too.
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The other side effect of only having 200 photos per dot is if you want to change the location of a dot containing, say 800 photos, you drag the dot to the new location and only 200 move. Then you have to go to "page 2" and the *new* dot disappears and 200 more appear at the old location... now you don't know where to drag the next "page" of photos since its disappeared. I'd prefer to have all the dots appear and no photos under them *until* I click on a dot. Then a little "loading photos" text could come up for a moment while the photos under the dot load. As it is, I can't tell where all the photos are until I switch through 13 "pages" of dots.
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shawnson edited this topic 41 months ago.
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I think you would discover plenty of expert interest in Flickr's different geographical photo groups if you wanted help in populating metadata for your map database with proper place names, suburban divisions and so forth.
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Getting completely buggered with JS errors in FireFox 1.5.0.6 after going through the trouble of GeoTagging all my relevant photos.
Check out a screenshot of the JS errors.
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Is there a way to manually edit or delete the geotagging information? I have a couple of pictures that I dropped on the map but they don't show up. If I move the picture to another location it warns me that it already has geotagging information so I know it's in there. But even if I move it to another location it still doesn't show on the map.
However, the picture does show up on the map from the picture detail page (e.g. flickr.com/photos/yeasty123/184083543/) but I can't edit the information from there.
This has only happened to 2 or 3 pictures out of 100 or so that I geotagged so far. It has only happened to very old pictures that I manually scanned rather than digital camera pictures if that makes a difference.
I'm thinking if I could delete the geotagging information and then try it again it might work. Maybe I did something wrong the first time.
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Street maps are not particularly detailed (Cardiff, UK), making it difficult to geodrag (new word) with any accuracy)
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First of all, I *love* this! It's a really amazing experience to go through all my pictures and associate them with a sense of place. I've been looking forward to this feature for a long time and am really excited to go through and tag all my pics. :)
A couple of issues:
1) I find the "Page N of nn" UI really, really counter-intuitive. I'd *much* rather have huge dots saying "Lots" wherever there are photos in the current map view. What's the point of having a vast overview of all the places I've ever taken photos if I can't see where all of them are without clicking "Next" a bunch of times? If the "pages" were associated with particular date ranges or something, that might make more sense, but otherwise it seems extremely arbitrary.
2) I have a bunch of photos from the Chinatown Street Fair in Oakland last weekend; for some reason they're showing up as in "Chinatown, CA" :)
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I suppose this is a bug, but I can't find anyway to add photos to the map by latitude and longitude. The way I've been getting round some of the limits in Yahoo Maps is typing in the location in google maps, then clicking "link to this page" (sometimes twice to make it work). The Lat. and Long. then appear in the address bar. That's fine if I could then apply the Lat. & Long. to the photos I have, but I don't seem able to.
Also, feature request: Somewhere on the individual photo page to remove incorrect Geotagging information.
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@jbond
When the APIs are released (soon) you'll be able to get your geo information out that way. You can also add
&georss=1
onto the end of an RSS feed to get it to include georss:point data.
@yeasty123
In Organizer double click the photo you want to edit in the findr tray at the bottom. Then click the "Location" link at the top of the edit box, you can manually edit & remove the location in there.
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yeasty123 - I cannot see any location information for that picture. Maybe geolocation privacy is set to private or friends-only, and maybe that explains why it cannot be found on the map.
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Mr Last Minute - The privacy is probably set to family-only, but I can't see it either. And if I can't see it I can't edit the privacy setting.
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You can edit it in Organizr. Double-click on the thumbnail and go to the "Location" tab in the edit dialog.
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Mr LM - that sort of did the trick. I did not know that I could doubleclick the thumbnail in Organizr. I did that and cleared out the location information and saved it. I also changed the privacy to Anyone. But when I dragged it back onto the map the same thing happened (or happend in Flickerese) -- the little thumbtack gizmo doesn't show up even though the lat/long info is on the thumbnail. Different example this time: flickr.com/photos/yeasty123/86503272/
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Hi
I can't see the map in Firefox 1.5.0.6 ; there is a js error:
Error: Unknown property 'behavior'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: www.flickr.com/css/flickr.css.v1.650
Line: 349
behavior: url('/javascript/pngbehavior.htc');
This is working in IE though a little slow. I manage to add some photos to the map. I haven't checked yet if I can see the map information in the properties.
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Actually I can see that one now, right between the "Dix Road Shopping Center" and "W Main St". Although on top of the map it says "You're on page 0 of 0 — 0 photos taken here".
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Spacehog: That's a CSS error you get on every flickr page, not particularly related to the maps.
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