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Geotag maps
Geotag maps














There are some other options out there that deserve a look. I'm glad the Organizr lets me change this setting, but why isn't there a geoprivacy option in a photo's privacy settings window or in the map that's shown when you click the photo? Happily, Flickr lets you set the geoprivacy of each image, though doing so is awkward. Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield prohibited geotagging of images of a party at his house. Naturally you might not want to share with the world the location of your living room, and your pernickety aunt might be even touchier. SmugMug lets you tour a gallery of photos on a map-a cool if still rough-around-the-edges feature.Īnother major advantage of Flickr is its handling of location privacy-geoprivacy in Flickr parlance. A more photo-oriented site might not have that space to spare. But in part that's because there's a big panel of verbiage to the right of the screen on which that kind of real estate is available. I also like the way Picasa, on an individual photo's page, includes a map showing where it was taken. And for people who are geotagging their photos through the Web site, I think Picasa's interface is the best. It also shows larger pop-up versions than Flickr does. Where Picasa has the edge over Flickr and SmugMug is in showing thumbnails of each image on the map, not just a dot or pushpin, which I like better even though thumbnails can get pretty crowded. But there's no question in my mind that the feature imparts a sense of traveling through a place, a sensation that regular slideshows completely lack. And for slideshows, thumbnails are hardly the best way to showcase sweeping vistas. It's a bit rough around the edges-I'm guessing because the technical difficulties of combining external Google Maps data with its own thumbnails-so it can be herky-jerky at times and with missing map elements. With this ability, the site automatically shows a gallery's sequence of photos, displaying thumbnails along the way on a map and a red line connecting them. SmugMug, though, has what I found to be the slickest geotagging feature out there: fly-through slideshows of a gallery. Indeed, it's probably the most likely way somebody might want to use a map to show off pictures of a recent trip, for example.

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(Google Maps can show Picasa images of a particular area to Google account holders who install a Mapplet application, though.)įlickr also lets you take a set-based view of a map, with a scattering of pink dots representing your pictures. In contrast, Picasa and SmugMug draw maps that only reflect the contents of a particular group of photos-called galleries at SmugMug, albums at Picasa, and sets at Flickr.

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That's a handy interface when trying to find photos of, say, Yosemite National Park, but you can't remember which of several trips a particular photo is associated with.įlickr displays pictures as unevocative pink dots, but the photos themselves are shown on a strip below. For example, you can see a high-level view of all your geotagged photos, and you can filter that view with parameters such as your photos, your friends' or contacts' photos, anyone's photos, and most important in my opinion, specific tags. One of the main reasons I picked Flickr as tops is because the Flickr maps interface can sift data better. But each site has different strengths and weaknesses, so look carefully before you make any commitments. My top pick is Flickr, with Picasa and SmugMug tied for second place. Just like we're not at the stage where most cameras can add a location stamp as easily as they can add a timestamp, we're not yet at the stage where most folks are going to start with an online map when they want to share their photos or reminisce.Ĭollectively, the sites I checked show the potential of geotagging-but also the rough spots.

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Google's Picasa site can show a map sprinkled with thumbnails of a photo album's pictures.īut as with other aspects of geotagging, today's cartographically clever Web sites are likely to appeal chiefly to enthusiasts who have some patience and technical abilities. But can anything useful be done with those geotagged photos today?īased on my scrutiny of a handful of sites- Google's Picasa, Yahoo's Flickr, SmugMug (the only fee-required site), Locr, and Everytrail-the answer is yes. I'm betting that much of the value of geotagging lies in the future, for example, when I might have a harder time remembering which hike a particular picture came from. Readers of this blog will have inferred I'm a fan of geotagging-in fact, I'm trying to label all my photos with the tags that show where the picture was taken, even though the geotagging process is complicated.














Geotag maps