Vacation Photos That Inform Instead of Bore

A News.com story discusses the increasing trend towards adding metadata to casually created content. Their discussion centers around vacation photos taken with increasingly sophisticated cameras, and uploaded to ever more feature-rich websites. These photos, taken on a whim by snap-happy tourists, become invaluable for people wanting to follow in their footsteps. "It's the odd juxtapositions of randomly plotted photos that may be the most surprising--and useful--to travelers with more obscure interests. For example, fans of graffiti can search the word, 'graffiti,' and 'New York City' at Flickr.com/map, and pull up photos of freshly painted tags, all plotted with pushpins on a clickable Yahoo map. A search for 'Dumbo Brooklyn graffiti,' for example, finds some 99 photos, including the infamous 'Neck Face' tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook."

Comments

Well, that depends

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you sit here at slashdot all day and night, with no life, no girlfriend, no job, jerking off, clicking that refresh button every second just to see if you can complain about each and every troll? You must really have no sense of humour.

Goatse Geomapped, Finally!

[DavidD_CA]

Finally I can geomap Goatse pictures to make for a more efficient search.

Check it out.

This technology is great!

Re:Privacy

[jollyreaper]

Not a terribly good story, but kinda interesting all the same. The author pointed out that with the number of recording devices constantly on the increase, and the impulse people have to 'share' their photos on the web, it would not require a big brother type scenario to see personal privacy become a thing of the past... even if you take hardcore measures to hide. I have three words for you: Groucho Marx glasses. Solved.

Re:Goatse!

[utopianfiat]

I mean, doesn't everyone? No? Just me?
Damn, do I feel pathetic.