Ah, the Wall Street Journal covers geotagging, although it’s tricky to find a way in without having a login.
There’s one thing (at first glance) that I feel needs a little tweak…
“Mr. Catt created a Web site, GeoBloggers.com, where users could tag and share their photos. Word of the application began to spread and soon other photo-sharing sites followed suit, including Geosnapper.com, SmugMug.com, Zoto.com and Plazes.com. These sites host hundreds of thousands of photos and attract users from around the world. (GeoBloggers now serves as Mr. Catt’s personal blog.)”
Plazes.com was happily doing it own thing with location at the time of geobloggers.com and very quickly pulled in photos into the mix (please correct me if I’m wrong on that). And Geosnapper.com has been around for years and years.
In the few emails that went back and forth I did say that geosnapper.com was there pretty much before anything else, but the phrase “geotagging” wasn’t really around then, the word became popularized by geobloggers.com, unless anyone wants to prove me wrong. So geosnapper.com was never originally called a geotagging site. I think they still don’t call themselves a geotagging site, but they pretty much get bundled into that group now.
It’s also very odd reading about yourself as “Mr Catt”, makes me feel old.
Oh and because the last paragraph of an article is always fun…
Next year, meanwhile, Nokia Corp. plans to release a camera phone that can automatically geotag photos. The cellphone maker plans to sell the phone for around $700. “Mapping and routing will belong to the standard phone experience in the next couple of years just as cameras are today,” predicts Ralph Kunz, vice president of Nokia’s multimedia group.
Good to see more geotagging articles hitting the press, one day this will all seem so obvious.
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116412316419229623.html via my referrer log files, username/password required.
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