Comments on: Flickr can haz (some) Shapedata

By: Charles Danoff

Charles Danoff — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:44:28 +0000

I am looking for a way to tag photo/video and mark locations for a map of my current town: Hamatonbetsu, Hokkaido. It is in the countryside of Japan.

So far I have experimented with google maps:

http://tinyurl.com/hamatonbetsu-google-map

and Flickr:

http://tinyurl.com/hamatonbetsu-flickr-map

I would like your advice on the easiest way to do this all on just one map. I.e. Google`s marking abilities with flickr. I would prefer not to use Picassa, but if that is the only way to avoid making duplicate maps, so be it. Thanks and thanks for the excellent site.

p.s. Realize this not pertinent to the post in question, but I knew no other way to contact you.

By: Arjun Ram

Arjun Ram — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:33:12 +0000

Hello, Would you happen to have the sample code using which you generated this? I am looking to play around & analyze it for places like India..

Thanks in advance.

By: Flickr Mapping

Flickr Mapping — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:57:17 +0000

[...] Catt at geobloggers blogged over a week ago about Flickr about how they were using WOE ID to generate polygons of [...]

By: sascha

sascha — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:23:11 +0000

Mapping was once the domain of professionals. Cartographers and geo-scientists trained in universities for several years to learn the best techniques for accurately displaying data on maps. The public often saw the end product of the map creation process, but was largely limited to scribbling on paper when it came to creating maps of its own. Beginning in 2005, this paradigm turned upside down. The last three years have fundamentally changed the way people understand their location and geography.

more ->http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/creating-maps-for-everyone

By: Jef Poskanzer

Jef Poskanzer — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:30:25 +0000

It SLIGHTLY ANNOYS me that the flickr folks (not you) are referring to their mapped images as “geotagged” when they never actually got around to implementing full automatic two-way conversion between their mapping and actual geotags. I still have to manually use the import page every time I geotag new images.