Tag: GEOTAG

An innovative an dinteresting venture by the University of Southern California called Viewfinder seeks to spatially locate 2D pictures within a 3D environment like Google Earth. The end result places the pictures within Google Earth so that they seamlessly integrate within their environment. Can't picture it? Just check out the video after the jump, and check out the site for more information on ...

Over at Berryreview.com, they've had a chance to scope out the new Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Blackberry. While the older "version" of Picasa for Blackberry was just a glorified landing page, this new application has plans to do a lot more: Add any picture to the correct album, add tags, or adjust its size prior to uploading Upload any picture to Picasa Web Albums If you're using a ...

Remember Monday when I reported on Flickr's new geotagging features, which gives users a nice drag-and-drop interface for "tagging" photos with the location they were taken at? I thought it was cool, but expected it to take off fairly slowly. According to the official FlickrBlog, though, in the first 24 hours more than 1.2 million photos were geotagged by Flickr users. In his post on the blog, ...

Today Flickr seriously pumped up its geotagging support and added Yahoo! Maps integration. The announcement in the Flickr blog links to a few screencast tutorials that make geotagging, i.e. associating photos with particular locations on the map, look pretty easy. It's done through the Flash Ajax-based Organizr tool, and basically you select a bunch of your photos and then drag them to the ...

Marshall Kirkpatrick over on TechCrunch has an interesting post of a possible upcoming Flickr feature. Marshall's post highlights some posts from Flickr users that noticed today a new Maps option on their photo page - one of the enterprising users, James & Vilija's, grabbed a screenshot (and posted it to Flickr). This would absolutely rule and makes all kinds of sense. There have been other ...