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Where I stand or What I shoot?
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Stored in: Flickr Hacks
Posted On: August 30 2006
By: Bryan Partington
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Ah, the Statue of Liberty, beacon to the telephotocally well-endowed.
When Geotagging photos of such a beautiful landmark [she's French, how can I resist?], often from locations at a great distance, an interesting question emerges...
"Where the heck do I drop the dot?"
The answer is that there is no easy answer.
When you look at the Statue of Liberty on a map, would you rather see photos taken OF the old girl, or photos taken FROM her?
Personally, I rather like seeing both. Geotagging, like text tagging, can get a little messy and some noise is to be expected. Still, it pays to think about which philosophy you prefer, and how lens length enters into the equation.
Generally speaking, the longer the lens you were using, or the more 'zoomed in' the camera was when you took the shot, the more likely it is that you'll want to put the dot on the object photographed.
For the vast majority of the photographs you make, it won't matter whether you 'drop the dot' on the position you were standing or on the position of the person, object or landmark. Most of the time, people looking at your dot should be able to extrapolate the where the photo was taken and where the camera was pointed, especially if they have some satellite imagery to help them out. Chalk that up to the amazing human capacity for spatial recognition.
If placing the dot where you took the photo helps other people figure out where the photographed thing is, do that.
If placing the dot on the photographed thing helps other people figure out where you took the photo, do that instead.
Essentially, place the dot where people can glean the most information from it.
Not that this is the ideal solution.
Hopefully, one day in our bright and glorious future, flickr will support camera orientation data... or perhaps something even more 'bleeding edge'.
1 comments on this Ink
On May 21, 2007, Unknown said ...
OK, thanks to the greasemonkeyscripts from yesterday I'm now hooked to google earth.
I already loved the flickr maps, but that's even better :)
Thanks for all the cool links!
Otherwise, in Flickr Hacks:
- Previously: Greasemonkey Round-up
- Next: Geotagging Week - Tag it up with Google Earth
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