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Geotagging photos and visiting them by location is a topic which we have covered before.
Mark showed ushow to geotag your Flickr photos on Google Maps & Earth.
He used a bookmarklet called Localize to geotag Flickr photos.
That’s going to a third party, and there are lots of other ways to geotag photos too.
ButFlickrhas its own geotagging utility that’s a great help with your Flickr photos.
That’s where we will be going in this post in a while.
Geotaggingis about adding location information to your photos that shows where it was taken from.
It’s commonly in the form of latitude and longitude coordinates, and also place names.
It helps if you have an auto-geotagging capable camera coupled with a GPS.
But thanks to geotagging web apps, the place data can be added later too.
The location gets added to a photo asmetadata.
Adding location based information to a photo enables us to search them out using a location search.
We see examples of geotagged photos on interactive maps like those from Google and on Google Earth.
Flickr on the other hand uses Yahoo Maps.
Flickr is owned by Yahoo, and you might jump in with your Yahoo ID.
Clicking onMapgives you the location perspective on a map.
Your own geotagged photos also become searchable by location.
Your publicly viewable photos also become a part of Flickr groups corresponding to that location.
The slight negative of using Yahoo Maps for geotagging is the level of detail.
The map view isn’t as specific as one gets on Google Maps.
If you do not own a GPS capable camera, do you set out to geotag your Flickr photos?
