A few notes on geotagging your photos…something that seems to be taking off, especially with new GPS tracking technology, the online photo sites and the increasingly interesting mapping services, like Google maps and Microsoft’s Live search maps.
Geotagging is one way to bring a little more life to photos from your travels – actually identifying where photos were taken and then plotting them together on the map… sort of more exciting than those satellite shots, where everything thing is small and topographical. In a sense, it lets you create a virtual trail of breadcrumbs to remember and showcase your journey, pinpointing exactly where your picture was taken. Uncornered Market has a great three-part blog series on how this works.
Flickr has a feed for photos that have been geotagged. Here is a map from Flickr of where people are shooting. Do any of yours appear here?
A service called Faceroller has also been released that works like this: You take a photo with your cell phone, name it, the service geo-locates your phone, and then you can upload your picture to Facebook or Flickr. Here’s a post on Jappit.com all about it.
Have you tried this? What do you think about it?