[OT] Geotagging pictures

[Thomas Dunham]

Yahoo/Flickr have Zonetag (http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/). Idea
seems to be that if you have a camera and GPS on your phone and you
upload a tagged image Flickr can then work out where that cell is. So
hopefully Flickr's data is getting more useful.

Tom

2008/8/18 Barbie <barbie at missbarbell.co.uk>:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:50:04AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday, I noticed that my shiny new C902 geotags photos. At least
>> it adds some cellid information to give that okayish GPRS triangulation
>> thing.
>>
>> iPhoto junks this data so flickr can't and doesn't do anything with it.
>>
>> Has anyone done anything useful with this kind of data?
>
> You might want to talk to JJ from Birmingham.pm, as he uses it to update
> the photo keyword tags to identify the city/town/village and country
> where the photo was taken. If you have a look at his Photo Tools slides,
> he makes mention of some of things he does.
>
> http://perl.jonallen.info/talks/phototools
>
> Cheers,
> Barbie.
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