Geo-tagging...
Wuff! I just finished geo-tagging all of my Flickr photos and boy are my arms tired! Flickr.com, for those that aren't in the loop, recently added a freakin' awesome geo tagging feature that essentially provides a dragabble google maps UI within the Organize page of your Flickr.com account where you can apply geographic location info to your photos [click the Map tab in the Organize area of your Flickr account].
Once you find the approximate location where a photo was taken on a world map with the usual map, hybird and satellite view toggles, you simply drag photos from the photo thumbnail area along the bottom onto the map and your photos are assigned the corresponding latitude and longtitude, within a certain tolerance of precision of course. Photos you've uploaded and other people's photos can be viewed by location, or you can see where a photo someone else has tagged is located by clicking the Map link on the individual photo page. This is provided that you have the proper security clearance to see this geo information, if implemented by the user.
Since many of my photos are oudoors photos and I've got 464 of them as of this blog post, this was no easy task to complete. I think I've got 96% of them tagged, give or take a few percentage points now. The map UI is slightly less detailed than google maps and can't be tilted or twirled as when using Google's Google Earth application but after a bit of fiddling with it, I got the hang of zooming in, zooming out or entering a keyword or location and then zooming in. The more difficult photos to tag where the Lake Chabot photos where I'm not totally certain where I took all of the photos.
Other locations that proved daunting to find were some of the photos at The Brazilian Room in Berkeley's Tilden Park and the Berkeley Landfill photos I took of some artwork there. I did eventually find these two locations with some help from a map I found on another site for the Brazilian room and lots of trial and error looking for the landfill.
Check out the photos on my Flickr.com site to see how nifty the geo-tagging feature actually is, once the task of tagging all of your photos is completed. I'm so glad that I don't have a thousand photos or more like some people do on the Flickr.com site. A few less than 500 was plenty time consuming to get through.
Now, I can get back to exporting, uploading, tagging and describing the photos I took over the Labor Day weekend to flickr so that I can blog about them as well. Some of the highlights from my trip included an amazing still shot of a Hawkmoth, the moth frequently mistaken for a hummingbird due to its incredibly agile manuevering capabilities and high-velocity wing flapping speed. Boingboing has posted an entry or two about these moths lately as well. Someone in Arizona told me that the Hawk Moths are called Sphinx Moths but I'm no expert. I'll leave that designation up to them.
I also got a really nice close up of a very large, green grasshopper, a long-eared jackrabbit and some other strange stuff that popped up while visiting for an extended stay in Nothern Arizona during the Labor Day weekend. Try to contain your excitement people! Vacation photos! Yay!
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