So I went paddling on July 4th with the mindset that I would take some photos and then geocode them using the track data from my GPS. This process takes the time stamp from the photo, finds the closest track point entry and then stores the lon/lat information for that photo in the image file itself. Then I wanted to upload them to Picasa and be able to see on a map where the images were taken. After going through all the steps I still couldn’t Picasa to display the image locations on a map automatically.
I even tried uploading a few images to Flick, but still no luck. I found bookmarklet that would set the GeoTags for you (Flickr seems to support adding the lon/lat as part of their tagging system) and then it would show the images on a map, but there was no batch process. You had to visit each image page run the bookmarklet and so on and so on. The process is fine for a few images, but I had 52 images from the July 4th paddle. The whole process seemed like a hassle for that many photos.
So today during lunch I did some searching and found the in Flickr there is a setting that turns on auto GeoTagging. Finally a viable solution. I tried it out and it worked perfectly. I was a little heart broken because I like Picasa and I am huge fan of most of the tools Google has developed lately. I originally switched from Flickr to Picasa for two reasons the free Flickr account only allows you to have 2 folders, or as they call them Sets, and I started using the Picasa application to edit my photos. It’s very easy to upload your photos to the Picasa Web Album from the Picasa application.
Today I decided the future (if it’s not already) of digital photos is online storage and sharing. And at the moment for what I need and want Flickr is the solution. I shelled out the $24.95 for a pro account. $2 a month isn’t bad considering I plan on doing a lot of paddling and exploring in the next year which will produce a lot of photos.
I am going to work on a “Geocoding for Flickr” Tutorial. So if your interested keep an eye out for it.
Switching from Picasa to Flickr…
So I went paddling on July 4th with the mindset that I would take some photos and then geocode them using the track data from my GPS. This process takes the time stamp from the photo, finds the closest track point entry and then stores the lon/lat information for that photo in the image file itself. Then I wanted to upload them to Picasa and be able to see on a map where the images were taken. After going through all the steps I still couldn’t Picasa to display the image locations on a map automatically.
I even tried uploading a few images to Flick, but still no luck. I found bookmarklet that would set the GeoTags for you (Flickr seems to support adding the lon/lat as part of their tagging system) and then it would show the images on a map, but there was no batch process. You had to visit each image page run the bookmarklet and so on and so on. The process is fine for a few images, but I had 52 images from the July 4th paddle. The whole process seemed like a hassle for that many photos.
So today during lunch I did some searching and found the in Flickr there is a setting that turns on auto GeoTagging. Finally a viable solution. I tried it out and it worked perfectly. I was a little heart broken because I like Picasa and I am huge fan of most of the tools Google has developed lately. I originally switched from Flickr to Picasa for two reasons the free Flickr account only allows you to have 2 folders, or as they call them Sets, and I started using the Picasa application to edit my photos. It’s very easy to upload your photos to the Picasa Web Album from the Picasa application.
Today I decided the future (if it’s not already) of digital photos is online storage and sharing. And at the moment for what I need and want Flickr is the solution. I shelled out the $24.95 for a pro account. $2 a month isn’t bad considering I plan on doing a lot of paddling and exploring in the next year which will produce a lot of photos.
I am going to work on a “Geocoding for Flickr” Tutorial. So if your interested keep an eye out for it.
– Jeremy
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