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Any updates on this?
"- We are aware of a bug where photos geotagged in Asia and the Pacific Rim are being displayed up to 500 meters away from their actual location. We are working to correct this issue. Meanwhile, please avoid correcting geolocations on your photos if you can help it. "
There has not appeared to be corrections, or correct corrections at least for parts of Mainland China (specifically the Yangtze River Delta area, of which Shanghai is part of).
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When can I find railroad on Japanese map?
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Do Flickr have the same maps as Iphone 5 - I mean, do we share the same problem as them?
(..and also will gain from the massive efforts from Apple to fix this problem?)
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 Do Flickr have the same maps as Iphone 5
No.
iOS 6 is using Apple's own homemade maps. Flickr is using Nokia's maps. Apple has nothing to do with the maps on Flickr.
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I see people re-send their issues asking for updates. I can imagine the issues have been stacking up and that they are dealt with in due course - which means we all have to wait in turn. But, as in waiting mode we don't learn of any progress, and we start to think nothing is beeing done which results in us losing faith in Flickr. Not good for either of us.
With reoccuring roadmap updates, let's say weakly, we will get the notion of progress, and then we know it is just a matter of time until Flickr have corrected our specific problem and I can just endure until then. We will only lose faith if the correction speed becomes too slow.
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"we start to think nothing is beeing done which results in us losing faith in Flickr"
Losing faith in Flickr is different than losing faith in Flickr's maps. The maps have been curiously poor since their introduction and some of us have been complaining for six years or more.
I enjoy Flickr as much today as I did when I first joined, but I've learned to accept that the maps, satellite images, and location name database will not be on par with other mapping services.
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I am pretty sure that I found a bug with a location name on the map. I added a photo to my map. This location should say Severn Falls. Which is the Village of Severn Falls, in the township of Severn in the county of Simcoe. But the map wanted to label it, New York. There is nothing nearby named that. The only other choices were Ontario and Quebec. I chose Ontario for now.
New York state is over 100 miles away. Quite a miss.
The photo.
www.flickr.com/photos/canuckwithacamera/8041139359/
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 Is this the only bug you found in the database with the location names? You are lucky. I lost counting them. Far too many.
Anyway there is a second method to change the name. This is more tedious, but can work if the correct name is not in the drop-down menu. In the url of the photopage is a unique number. This is the photo_id. Go to this page and narrow down via the childrens lists to find your location name. Take from that the woe_id number. Go to this page and put both photo_id and woe_id in the fields. Click call method. The name of the location is now changed. This works only if the correct location name is in the database. As far as I can see, Flickr has Simcoe and Severn, but not Severn Falls.
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In addition to ernstkers excellent advice, I just wanted to point out that Flickr staff have said the location names database is completely separate from the maps. (They've also been promising improvement to the location names database since I've been using the Flickr map -- several years now.)
And yes, you're quite lucky if you've only discovered one error with it. :-)
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Is there no way to add place names in the Flickr map? Here in Norway we take a lot of pictures in the wild, often far away from cities, but all places have a name. But I don't put place names 500 to 1000m off track. There are very few details on the maps of Norway in general. Poor information.
On the OMP there is much more information, but how do I get that map on my Flickr?
So I chose not to geotag my pictures until there are more options, what I can select now makes all look very confusing and erroneous.
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"Is there no way to add place names in the Flickr map?"
Currently, no. There's a longstanding feature request in Flickr Ideas asking for the ability to add custom/correct names to the database. (Again, the location names database is a separate feature from the map; the map is provided by a third-party.)
As ernstkers describes above, you can force the correct location name to a photo, IF the correct name exists in the database.
"So I chose not to geotag my pictures until there are more options"
I've continued to geotag my images despite the erroneous location names. I use the exact longitude and latitude coordinates so I know the map placement is correct, even if the location names are not.
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Since I can't any other more appropriate place to ask this, please fix the neighborhoods around Prospect Park in Brooklyn. "Prospect Hights" should be removed (merged with "Prospect Heights"), "Adelphi" is nonsensical, and "Prospect Leffert" needs to be "Lefferts Gardens". The current default, e.g. for a photo dropped in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is "Prospect Hights".
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Staff might see that here, and hopefully will fix it.
But this thread is supposed to be about the maps themselves, which staff have said (on the first page of this thread) are not related at all to the place names database.
They've also promised coming changes to the location names databases, but no timeline has been announced.
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Will a Guest Pass now allow my visitor to see my map location? That's a critical feature for me!
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Will a Guest Pass now allow my visitor to see my map location?
Seems to me that will depend if you make the map visible.
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 No, that feature has not yet been added. Feel free to add your voice to those asking for it here: www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157622481612933/
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FLICKr STAFF said four months ago that the JAPAN MAPS problem would be fixed in a week or so. I gave it a month.
It's now been four months, and our entire OKINAWA, JAPAN region remains a skeletal death chart utilizing 50-year-old road beds for half of the routes, and only a handful of place names...many of which are 10 to 100 miles off !
Other than that, not a drop of detail at any magnification, and useless to the those I'm directing to the sights pictured.
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157630333262094/#reply7...
I wonder if FLICKr STAFF has a renewed projection for their JAPAN FIX, and, if not, do we have any other options to over-ride the current mess.
Thanks.
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The poor resolution in hybrid/satellite modes continues to be an issue www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157630333262094/7215763...
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Your maps are still shit, Hongdae is a massive district in Seoul, yet it does not appear when searching on the maps. I have also had issues searching for locations in Singapore. Even if I search Singapore it will place some locations in the middle of London. Please please make it better.
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useless for scotland if it's not in edinburgh
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Half of Nottinghams Hybrid/Satellite images were shot on a foggy day and the other half there is no detail whatsoever, having to rely on guess work to place most images.
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Could we get an update on when the size scale might be added? The last post I see on it is 4 mo ago. This is IMPORTANT. A size scale is essential to any map; I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I discovered it was missing. I try my best to maintain a positive, constructive tone, and I really do appreciate that staff are working hard to make improvements, but all I can think to say re this particular (lack of) feature is: what were they *thinking*?
Thanks in advance, & thanks for all your hard work.
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"Could we get an update on when the size scale might be added? The last post I see on it is 4 mo ago. This is IMPORTANT. A size scale is essential to any map; I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I discovered it was missing."
That one's boggling my mind too. Until this Nokia thing showed up, I'd never seen a map without a distance scale. Basically, what it tells us is: "we don't think this map is important, so we're not really interested in improving it."
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Size-scale is a huge issue! Accuracy would be another nice feature. I realize we're never going to see Google maps so how about Michelin?
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The so-called new maps are so bad that I stopped adding photos to them sometime ago. I've seen other members do the same too .. The last maps wasn't very good, but at least they were just about usable...
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GENERAL QUESTION --- What exactly was wrong with the old maps that caused Flickr to dump them for what appears to be an even worse mess ?
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"GENERAL QUESTION --- What exactly was wrong with the old maps that caused Flickr to dump them for what appears to be an even worse mess ?"
I can't answer why they went to a "worse mess".
But the old maps started off as Yahoo! maps. They were behind to begin with and stayed behind (even when Yahoo! updated its maps, Flickr kept the old versions).
This Help Forum and the Flickr Ideas group were both regularly filled with complaints about the maps -- inaccuracies, incorrect street names, big blank spots, and out-of-date areas. It was a relatively regular request from Flickr users for the maps to be improved.
It was high time Flickr replaced those maps with something else. As to why they chose to replace them with something equally inaccurate and out of date is a mystery. (My own neighborhood is much better represented in the Nokia maps.)
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I am curious why Flickr staff Xerxes2K does not appear to map his photos on his own Flickr stream.
Perhaps if he did, he would be more aware of the many serious, irritating, and continuing problems with the Nokia maps.
It is incredible to me that in San Francisco, where Flickr is based-- Cesar Chavez Street is still marked as Army. (Many streets are not named at all!)
People should have freedom to choose whether they wish to map their photos or not-- but someone who promotes a product they don't use is not very comforting.
This laxness and inattention to the desires of your customers does not portend a good future for Flickr.
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I realize we're never going to see Google maps Just use Geophotoshow to set your photo locations.
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Thanks for the reply, Wil C. Fry (two comments above). I suppose, then, that some of us became losers and others became winners. For me, the old Flickr maps were great, up-to-date, and accurate. And now I have been tossed back to the stone age. However, I'm glad to hear that for you, the situation was improved.
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Kh.... --- Thanks for the link. I didn't know about that third-part service, and the maps are great compared to Nokia. HOWEVER, by signing on to their service and authorizing the link, It says that I'll allow Geo Photo Show to:
Access my Flickr account (including private content)
Upload, Edit, and Replace photos and videos in my account.
What the heck does THAT mean ?
Thanks.
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Okinawa Soba:
Access my Flickr account (including private content)
Upload, Edit, and Replace photos and videos in my account.
What the heck does THAT mean ? I've been using the site for a couple of years now and I've never had any problems. It is a mash-up set up and run by one generous guy, not by some sinister multinational trying to steal your photos :)
Drop him an e-mail, if you are concerned.
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I just noticed a size scale has reappeared. Thanks, guys! Not sure why there was no post here about it from staff -- you'd think they'd be happy to share good news. Maybe they are still testing it.
Unfortunately, now every time I move or resize the map, the blue spots for my photos now jump around at random or disappear. As I zoom out, the mapped positions seem to appear to be offset south of the true location by a constant number of pixels, so the error mounts to tens or even hundreds of km. As I zoom back in, the behavior is less consistent, with photos often disappearing. The problem occurs all the way down to max zoom. Rebooting does not solve it. The lat & lon numeric fields remain correct; the problem involves the graphical display only.
I'm using Firefox 11.0 under Win7, Shockwave Flash 11.5.502.110. Screenshots & more info on request. Has anybody else experienced this behavior? Staff, can you address it? (I've long since given up on trying to use "Contact Us" for true bug reports; maybe posting in a public forum will be more successful.)
Thanks much.
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Yes well your maps quality might have improved but the placement of photos on them has got incredibly WORSE. You were once able to exercise a fair degree of control over the accuracy of their placement by using the zooming slider and directional arrows, apart from switching map mode to "hydrid" or "satellite". Now the placement on maps results on the engine that operates the geo-tagging going completely haywire - and I am absolutely sick of it.
I use an Apple MacBook Pro with OS Version 10.8.2 so do not start telling me my PC is to blame.
I want some answers - soon please !!!
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"I just noticed a size scale has reappeared. Thanks, guys! Not sure why there was no post here about it from staff -- you'd think they'd be happy to share good news. Maybe they are still testing it."
Thanks for noting that. It shows I don't look at Flickr's maps as often as I used to, that I didn't notice it until you pointed it out.
And yes, it's curious that staff didn't post that update.
"Unfortunately, now every time I move or resize the map, the blue spots for my photos now jump around at random or disappear."
That's always been the case, at least for me. If I photo wasn't mapped at full zoom, it'll disappear when you get close enough. Also, as you zoom out, blue dots will join each other in clumps -- that's normal too.
As for your image locations actually changing ("tens or even hundreds of km", that might be a bug. I haven't seen it with my own images. You might want to list specific images that do this, and perhaps take a couple of screenshots that illustrate the changing locations.
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"Yes well your maps quality might have improved but the placement of photos on them has got incredibly WORSE"
Can you provide any examples? My images continue to be placed with the same accuracy as before.
" You were once able to exercise a fair degree of control over the accuracy of their placement by using the zooming slider and directional arrows, apart from switching map mode to "hydrid" or "satellite". Now the placement on maps results on the engine that operates the geo-tagging going completely haywire"
"Haywire" is a little vague. What, specifically, is happening when you try to place images on the map?
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Wil: thanks for your response. I should have crossposted here: when this thread went 4 days with no response from staff (or anyone else), I decided maybe nobody was monitoring it any more, & it seems in general like starting a new thread may get you more attention. So I posted a detailed bug report with screenshots here: www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157632011019592/. Still no response.
As you can see, this problem is completely unrelated to the normal behaviors you list. It might be the same bug that Fihliwe is seeing, though. Fihliwe, do my screenshots look similar to the behavior you're seeing with your MacBook?
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I don't see any posts about my new problem:
My photostream Map link shows me far fewer pink dots than it should. The Organize/Map view says I have 240 mapped photos and they all seem to appear as blue dots in this view.
I'm pretty sure that the problem is simply that my Photostream/Map view only shows geotagged photos from the past 6 months.
Now why would that be?
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This has nothing to do with the new maps, it was the same with the old ones. I have answered you already in the topic you started before posting here.
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Is there an update on the displacement of the Chinese geotagging I mentioned last time 5 months ago?
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There still seem to be significant registration / display issues for North-West England:
OS: Linux x86_64
Browser: Firefox 10.0.11
1. Registration of map data and photographs doesn't match, map is approx 15m West and 10m North of the aerial photographs www.flickr.com/photos/30661871@N03/sets/72157632270177862...
2. Organizer is seemingly incapable of drawing existing sets in the correct place. This is the same set as above, but from the map view in Oraganizer:
www.flickr.com/photos/30661871@N03/8284778242/in/photostream
I have marked the correct location in red at the top. Each time the map re-loads the displayed photographs after panning or zooming, the existing geotagged photo markers move around at random!
Tagging items seems to work, but doing so when your previous items are drifting like balloons doesn't inspire confidence!
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Americans are well-known for their ignorance of georaphy, but even I know the Normandy coast is in France. However, Flickr maps do not.
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katpor1953:
Flickr maps are made by Nokia, a Finnish company.
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Frankly your maps are pathetic. Not only is the resolution nothing approaching that provided in Panoramio, where I post most of my landscape and aerial work - I can lock images to within a yard or so - but attempting to upload an image providing its coordinates in the absence of good enough resolution to spot the area on the map, also doesn't work on Flickr. How much more basic can information required to locate a place, be, than providing detailed coordinates?
I know you are being forced to stick with an existing provider, but hey, paying users of the service, long ago, had had enough.
Do try and get that through to your owners, please?
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"...but attempting to upload an image providing its coordinates in the absence of good enough resolution to spot the area on the map, also doesn't work on Flickr."
Yes, that's how I map my photos on Flickr -- using the coordinates. It's always been spot-on.
You can either (1) enter the coordinates directly, in Organizr, or (2) have the coordinates already in the file -- Flickr will recognize them when you upload.
I use the latter method.
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I geotag with lat and long before upload and, like Wil's, they are all spot on
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The Mauritius Map satellite view has deteriorated tremendously, difficult to place the photos precisely on the locations where they were shot.
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The satellite image and map quality for the parts of the UK (e.g. south Devon) that I've tried to use is terrible. It's practically impossible to place images correctly without using another mapping service (Google Maps) because the images are so blurry it's not possible to identify anything smaller than 100m or so (even roads aren't visible!)
In addition, the plane name search doesn't work. Search for "Pilsdon" and it doesn't find it. However, if you browse the map, it actually appears as a place name.
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Any idea why I can no longer 'map' a location for a photo using Firefox, but can with IE? Thanks.
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Doesn't really matter how good or bad the new maps are. Users can't zoom in on World Maps to see photos anyhow. The algorithm that places photos on the World Map is broken and photos aren't showing up there when clicking on the green arrow to refresh the view, which I assume is the most common way to use World Map. Alas.
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Previously I had to use the "map" or the "hybrid" view......the "satellite" view refused to focus. Now everything works perfectly (Windows Vista Premium + Chrome browser).
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Not everything. Please see above.
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