Geobloggers changes direction

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Just a quick first post to state the obvious. Geobloggers, as a mapping site has gone, it’s now my main mapping blog.

There are several reasons for this, some great, some good and some bad. The very short and simple is that I used to run and develop the site in my own free time, and it was very separate from my day job.

Now I have a different day job and the lines between that and my hobby are very very blurred, to the point that it’s kinda impossible to maintain both without it frankly getting ridiculous!

And believe me, you really want me to be concentration on my day job!

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16 Responses to “Geobloggers changes direction”

  1. Thomas, on March 13th, 2006 at 11:54 pm Said:

    Yesterday was my visit at your site here (came from flickr geotagging group). The site was down for maintenance-reasons. Now I read

    Geobloggers, as a mapping site has gone

    . I dont’t know the “old” site - but I think she was very interesting. Can I find anything from your “old” content on a new place?

  2. Goodbye Geobloggers, Hello Yuan.CC Maps at Digital Geography, on March 14th, 2006 at 7:46 pm Said:

    [...] Sadly, Geobloggers is no more according to Ogle Earth. Perhaps, as someone has suggested hopefully the Geobloggers code could be open-sourced. My favourite free alternative to Geobloggers was the GMiF Fire Fox extension which embeds Google Maps into Flickr. I welcome the latest development: Yuan. CC Maps My geotagged Flickr photographs have a new home! [...]

  3. niznoz, on March 15th, 2006 at 2:24 pm Said:

    we look forward to hearing more about your day job.

  4. Adrian Mars, on March 15th, 2006 at 5:20 pm Said:

    OK I suspect due an ongoing collision of interest with your job at flickr and Geobloggers you’re being vague again. I’ll take you on trust there are good reasons and look forward to the results (Any idea of time-scales, even if you can’t say what you are doing?). More importantly can you answer a key question, should I remove my geobloggers links (not the tags, obviously) from my flickr images? Or will they one day work again?

  5. Kim Scarborough, on March 17th, 2006 at 3:32 pm Said:

    So should we change the links in our Geotagged pictures? Can we have some more information about what’s going on?

  6. niznoz, on March 17th, 2006 at 5:23 pm Said:

    Can’t wait to hear about yr. day job.

  7. Michael Patrick, on March 21st, 2006 at 5:01 pm Said:

    It’s great that you have a new job, and thank you for your mapping service; however, now lots of Flickr users have geotags and links to geobloggers.com. Can you recommend any successor to your site that uses the same geotags?

  8. JJM, on March 27th, 2006 at 4:23 am Said:

    Welcome back. Great to meet you at the Flickr prty. Looking forward to more activity on geobloggers!

  9. Raymond Yee, on March 29th, 2006 at 6:22 pm Said:

    Hi Dan,

    I’m wondering whether you would be willing to donate your code for geobloggers.com as a mapping service or put it out as open source so that others in the Flickr community might step up to the plate and take it over.

  10. Mark Zeman, on March 31st, 2006 at 8:54 am Said:

    As well as Flickrmap.com which places geotagged photo on a flash map that you can place on your own website. I’ve created a network link for Google Earth that goes some way in replacing one of best features of the old geobloggers website.

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72057594082212061/

  11. Aldo, on April 2nd, 2006 at 11:39 am Said:

    And geobloggers has turned up elswhere. see http://geobloggers.tafoni.net/ Now only replacing the link in the description of your photo’s

  12. sarchi, on April 2nd, 2006 at 5:10 pm Said:

    Will look forward to any news to come along..

  13. isulong seoph, on June 27th, 2006 at 5:33 pm Said:

    This site was very useful and I’m surprised that it came to a pause. I think my last visit was about less than a year ago. We’ll look forward to the comeback. Good luck

  14. Flickr To Get All Geotaggylicious? « MaisonBisson.com, on August 29th, 2006 at 1:24 am Said:

    [...] When Dan Cat gets cagey, and people are talking about mysterious map buttons in Flickr a guy has to wonder…is this why the lines between Dan’s hobby and day job are so blurry? [...]

  15. ThoSch:Blog » Blog Archiv » flickr map - eher nicht!, on August 30th, 2006 at 9:14 pm Said:

    [...] Ich hatte bereits mit anderen Diensten Bilder georeferenziert. Meine ersten Gehversuche hatte ich mit Geobloggers gemacht. Dort platzierte man seine Bilder auf einer Google Maps-Anwendung. Leider wurde der Dienst eingestellt. Vor ein paar Tagen hat mich frischmilch auf loc.alize.us aufmerksam gemacht. Dieser Dienst biete nicht nur eine Karte an, auf der die georeferenzierten Bilder angezeigt werden, sondern auch ein Bookmarklet, mit dem das Georeferenzieren nahtlos in die flickr-Oberfläche integriert wird. Auch hier können die Bilder mit der Maus aus einem Kartenausschnitt platziert werden. [...]

  16. figuring out the future of geotagging now that geobloggers.com is officially gone « A Test site for Raymond Yee, on September 21st, 2006 at 11:24 pm Said:

    [...] It’s official: Geobloggers changes direction and no longer functions as a mapping service of geotagged flickr photos. It was great service while it lasted. I certainly miss it. The old geobloggers.com aggregated information about geotagged photos and made that information available in its interface (auto-refreshing google maps) and through an API. It made effective use of google maps. [...]

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