Flickr co-worker Eric’s been playing with realtime geotagged photo data, you know, for ummmm, stuff. One of the first things that was obvious from the playing was we’re getting geotagged photos in at just under 1 a second. Which is turning into around 60,000 new geotagged photos a day.
After the initial burst of people discovering mapping in Flickr and going back to geotag old photos we’ve settled on a fairly steady rate, but one that’s slowly going up. I assume there are several reasons for this …
- More people are discovering geotagging
- More people are getting GPS units
- We’re seeing slicker tools to match tracklogs with photo timestamps to plug location into EXIF headers
- We’re seeing simpler ways to use maps to plug location into EXIF headers
- More camera phone tools that tell Flickr where photos were taken when they are uploaded
On that last point IsWhere has a good quick post about Camera Phones. And with more phones getting GPS and other Location based tools, Nokia N95, ZoneTag, Shozu and Mobup to name, err, well 4, it looks like we’re just at the start of the explosion of good (well gooder) quality, always with you, location aware, camera toting people, just like you and me.
But I’m getting sidetracked. The point is, that by the time you’ve finished reading this, there’ll be another 30 or so geotagged photos in the world.
Hi I read recently that it costs something in the region of £4 for manurfactures to install GPS chips. It seems to me that most people would be happy to pay £100 extra for a camera with GPS automatically and simply integrated, like the time and all the other camera details are in the exif, without having to mess around with google maps/earth/[an other geotagging software].
As far as I can tell the Ricoh G3 is the only one available and is both ugly and expensive.
Surely this is a simple and obvious market decision for the camera makers!!
It seems we are much more likely to see and mobile phone with a GPS/location software and a 5M pixel camera than we are to see a 5M pixel camera with a GPS built it.
Which I for one think is a shame?
I think you’re right, but we’ll see more GPS in cameras in 2007.
As I’ve mentioned before as people turn away from megapixels as being a differentiating factor between cameras, the manufactures will turn to other things such as GPS. Probably from unbranded cheap eastern imports first, before the big players catch up.
Of course it’s only now that all of us consumers have started to create a need and demand that’s it’s happening :)
We just came out with another feature that may also be helping this trend:
you can now easily publish your maps+tracks+geotagged pics on your own site or blog, see this example.
It works by copying/pasting a line of code which basically loads an iframe and hence works in almost everything that parses html (blogs, forum posts, etc). Not working yet in Safari on Mac but we’re working on that.
Thanks RevDanCatt for including Mobup in your list ;-)
My opinion is that both cameraphones and cameras will converge to something that can:
1) take a photo
2) augment its conveied message through title, description, tags, …
3) geotag it
4) UPLOAD IT online (!!)
I think number four sets the difference between what Marc says (just drop a GPS chip in a camera and you’re done) and what i think (I want to shoot, enrich and upload the photo right here and right now).
I just launched a neat little tool tonight to generate your site’s geotags for you. Hope you like it: http://www.addressfix.com
Doug
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[...] We use the public geotagged photos contributed to the world by the lively and active Flickr community, and the tags associated with these images, to help you explore the world like never before. Our system automatically extracts the tags that are relevant and representative for each map region or zoom level — and connects these tags to the photos that represent that area. [...]