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Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-toys dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Flickr today launched a mash up of sorts creating a tool in their organizer where users can use Yahoo! maps to geotag their photographs at Flickr. The new feature allows Flickr users the ability to simply drag and drop their photos onto a map, filter their photos by tags in order to geotag, and use interesting search technology to browse photos that have been geotagged on Flickr maps."

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  1. Uh..... by Sohil · · Score: 5, Informative

    I personally prefer Zooomr's, It uses Google Maps and is more functional than FlickR (and offers free accounts to bloggers)

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    1. Re:Uh..... by SriRed · · Score: 5, Informative

      now yes zooomr does give free accounts to bloggers but that lasts for only one year after which youd be oliged to buy a pro account.

    2. Re:Uh..... by eobanb · · Score: 4, Informative

      I agree with this. Google Maps in Zooomr is real nice. Even if you use Flickr right now, Zooomr's is definitely worth at least looking at for comparison. Not to mention that they had intuitive geotagging long before Flickr did.

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  2. Completely useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I can't imagine anyone giving it a positive review... I just spent the past 1/2 hour of my life trying to use the interface. In both N6 and IE6 and it's just... simply.. broken. Frustratingly so! And I simply adore how when I attempt to search on my latitude/longitude coordinates (because other attempts at navigation fail) it send me to some place in England... not even a mistake regarding E/W longitude.

    This could be amazingly useful... if one could just use it.

  3. Flickrblog entry by shut_up_man · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's more nifty info on the Flickrblog: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/great_sh ot_wher.html

    Apparently Safari support is currently broken, but will be fixed shortly.

    1. Re:Flickrblog entry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      I just used it on Safari without issue. Aside from Yahoo Maps' sluggish performance, it's pretty nifty.

  4. Yahoo Maps is terrible by Tester · · Score: 4, Informative

    The sad part about this is that Yahoo maps is soo bad.. And the flash-based beta version is even worse, it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly. Any Yahooer should be ashamed of it. They can't do AJAX like Google. Shame on Yahoo.

    1. Re:Yahoo Maps is terrible by hritcu · · Score: 1, Informative

      ask.com is us only. useless for everybody else.

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  5. The Link by hey · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.flickr.com/map/

  6. Re:Nice, but limited by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    you can use the "google maps in flickr" greasemonkey script for geotagging using google maps.

    you can get that here:

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1574

    then auto-convert 'geotags' to the new flickr format.

  7. Re:Nice, but limited by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    inporting geotags to the new-system is done through:

    http://flickr.com/account/geo/import

    so if google maps is your favourite mapping system you can still use it.