Geotagging your pictures
Following a suggestion by Guillaume Riflet, we implemented a Geocoder connector and also added a tags input field to the existing Flickr connector.
The geocoder connector uses the Google Maps API Geocoding Service and, after you feed it with a location text, it will output different pieces of information:
- geoTags: geo:lat and geo:lon machine tags ready to be used by flickr;
- latitude;
- longitude;
- address: the complete address of the location you provided;
- locality: usually a city or a neighbourhood;
- postalCode;
- countryCode: a ccTLD two letter country code;
- country.
We hope you can take advantage of this new connector by geotagging your photos.
This is a great step towards easy geo-tagging. I’m already using it to geotag the flickr photos.
However, EXIFying the geodata into the image file would be even better (although more resource intense).
Great stuff, you’re going in the right direction!
Cheers,
Comment by Guillaume — July 12, 2008 @ 7:03 pm