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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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    3. Re:Uh..... by hritcu · · Score: 3, Insightful

      [Zooomr] offers free accounts to bloggers

      Free ... as in hooks.

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  2. Visit places you've never been by w33t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if this geotagging could be combined with this photo tourism technology?

    Furthermore, perhaps these photo tourism 3D reconstructions could then be combined with google earth so you could literally browse the planet.

    Neato.

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  3. Re:Interesting search technology by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree that geo-tagged boobies are an interesting use of technology.

    However, I anticipate a slight rise in cases of stalking.

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  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 Wanado · · Score: 4, Insightful
      it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly
      Agreed. People have been using Google maps and GreaseMonkey for geotagging for more than a year. Flickr's parent company Yahoo probably got jealous and is making another attempt to be as cool as Google. Too little, too late.
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  5. Lack of Wow Effect by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they're going for the "Wow Effect", they're a year late. Pictures in maps... I'm sorry, am I supposed to be impressed? Drag and drop, mapped pictures, picture text searches, all great, but none new. I think they did a good job, and its a welcome addition to their site, but I don't think it's going to generate the buzz they think it might. It will, imho, simply keep them competitive with the bigger draws out there, like YouTube.

    If and when they release a code snippet to embed these in your own page (maybe they have, I don't know), then this will certainly be a big hit among users (though still not technically impressive). Imagine all the MySpace users who would flood to their service if they could organize their pictures by location, and even by friend's picture collections, and add it directly to their page.

    As it stands now, though, this is about as exciting as watching your friend buy last year's hot computer gadget after you've already played with it for a year. They've caught up, but they've not moved ahead.

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