Flickr and DasBlog and geo-tagging and EXIF and on and on and on
I was just trying out Flickr for some Z pictures and I noticed:
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Scott Schecter had already posted how DasBlog and Flickr can work together.
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Dave Bouwman has a nice Google Earth/Flickr/Geotagging mashup up at his /labs site, while...
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Dan from GeoBloggers has gone to work for Yahoo/Flickr.
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gmaptrack does a nice job of formalizing Google Map's mashups and making them more accessible to the average Joe.
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There's a great article over at MAKE on how to tag your own photos with a cheap handheld GPS and camera.
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Mappr then takes your geo-tagged photos from Flickr and lays them out in a very classy flash interface.
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Tools like RoboGEO will automatically take time-stamped photos and GPS data and write the GPS coords into the EXIF information within the image.
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Zoto will automatically pushpin geo-tagged uploaded photos.
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Microsoft's World Wide Media Exchange (WWMX) Research Project is pretty sweet, as is their Web Demo.
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Remember Ceiva? You can get frames that will connect to your Flickr RSS feed and download tagged photos. I suspect the Ceiva venture capitalists didn't see all these Tetris pieces falling together this quickly. BTW, Ceiva's only $99 now, but they actually charge for a Broadband "adapter" - ouch.
There's such a fantastic amount of work going on with Geotagging and Photo sharing, but it all feels so skunkworks. Maybe that's just what meta-data feels like, but even the geo-tagged name=value pairs that appear in "tunnelled" within flickr's geotagged photos seem hacky. There's a lot of equipment needed to pull this stuff off.
How long until GPS's are so tiny that they are just inside any small digital camera and the JPEG's EXIF data is automatically geo-tagged? Its interesting to me that Wi-Fi is in Nikons but I can't seem to find a camera that includes a GPS. It'd sure be shiny. It's so hard now that only phillip torrone can do it. Sigh. These pictures ARE NOT geo-tagged. :)
UPDATE: RichB points me to the 3.2MP Ricoh Camera/GPS combo. A little funky because the GPS is a CF Card in the bottom of the camera, but still very cool. Definitely better than a 1MP GPS-enabled camera phone.
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...anyway, here's a 3.2Mp compact digital:
http://www.geospatialexperts.com/ricoh.html
What about videos along with audio? It seems everyone is posting photos online but a few doing video.
Check out sites like youtube.com and vidilife.com. I didn't like vidilife.com because they post seminude videos along your family oriented ones. I guess to attract moew users. Not cool.
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Forgive me if I missed your reference to this, but I think you missed one of the most useful applications of "GPS cameras" - figuring out who is in the pictures. When you take pictures, the camera names the pictures something useless, like DSC_2154.jpg. I have no idea who or what's in that photo until I look at it again. By using the GPS information, I could, for example, add my parent's names to every photo taken at their home. That would make for searching for photos of them a lot easier.
I don't know of any cameras that have GPS built-in, but you're right - they're coming soon. The Nikon D2H (http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25219) has a GPS interface, but it's not built in.
Great shows, BTW.
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> any small digital camera
A search for GPS cameraphone returns lots.