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Geotagging Week - Tag it up with Google Earth
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Stored in: Flickr Hacks
Posted On: September 01 2006
By: Bryan Partington
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Perhaps the single greatest complaint regarding flickr's new Geotagging functionality is the lack of street level coverage that yahoo maps provides for many regions of the world.
In many regions outside North America it can be very frustrating to accurately place your photos. This frustration is often compounded by the fact that Google Maps may have extremely high resolution of that same area.
Flickr responded to this need by opening up Geotagging data through the flickr API, allowing outside developers to add increased functionality on top of flickr's maps.
Within a day of the API being open, Trippermap had already converted to the new system. Further, they have provided an online tutorial on how to use their service to geotag using Google Earth, an excellent standalone mapping solution for PC and Mac.
It isn't the most intuitive set up, but Google Earth is an excellent [free] application and Trippermap provides an easy to follow step by step video tutorial.
I think it is great that flickr is open enough to allow outside developers to work this way, and it's great to see that we can Geotag our photos using both Yahoo and Google maps. This means that we'll have the maximum possible coverage going forward, and the ability to Geotag the best of both worlds.
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