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How-to: easily geotag your Flickr photos
Warning: I'm labelling this Not Safe For Work because it could quickly bring all semblance of productivity to a grinding halt (hmm, I'm sensing a theme in my posts lately -- I'm hereby starting a GND (Getting Nothing Done) movement to balance out the GTD movement). Now that Greasemonkey is solidly back in effect, you can all too easily start geotagging your life by combining your Flickr photos with Google Maps via the magic that is Geobloggers.com. Here's an overview of how it works, and here are the play by play instructions on how to set it up and start geotagging. After you tag some photos you can see what other photos have been taken nearby and which users are geotagging near you, and even fly to photos via Google Earth. Just don't forget to occasionally walk away from the computer and get some food and (direct) human contact, k?
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Mister Fingers said 9:27PM on 8-06-2005
FlickrImportr is an upload tool for Windows that will automatically add the geo-tagging stuff if you have GPS info embedded in EXIF tags in your JPEG image. IMHO, it's a better upload tool than Flickr's default.
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Mister Fingers said 9:29PM on 8-06-2005
I should add, you can get it at: http://flickrimportr.blogspot.com
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Michiel said 8:05AM on 8-08-2005
Looks like you made Del.icio.us Popular list :)
Way to go, Barb!
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