geobloggers

Taken at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California by Heather

A couple of weekends ago I ventured out to grab a tracklog and some photos, which I’d then be able to use to test out various flickr/geotagging tools. I’ll get onto that in a later post though.

This is a quick one about the new groovy Machine Tags and upcoming.org, it’s been there a while but with the roll out of Machine Tags, Kellan added a little boost the the upcoming integration.

Over on the left is a snippet from the Ocean Beach Geo Walk at upcoming. On the right is what’s needed on the flickr side to make it happen. It’s pretty simple. By using the ID of the event and doing upcoming:event=xxxxxx as a machine tag flickr will auto-magically pick that up and give you a lovely “Taken at Blah” link. Upcoming on the other hand builds up a small gallery of thumbnails.

Those crazy kids over at Zooomr had their own photowalk on the same day with their own upcoming event and tag, with a bunch of hot shots. Hopefully that means we’ll see more of this stuff happening, which will make the scrap book feature of upcoming …

… another great way of discovering a different viewpoint of and photographers at events you went to.

I also suspect it’s one of those things where the value will slowly come out after a while, as more people do it, and possibly more tools/intergration appear to make it even easier. The next obvious step is to suggest the event (and event tag), based on the time you took the photo, if you’ve also marked yourself at that event during that time.

For the moment, small steps.