The Map Room

Garmin seems to be adding cameras to a lot of its top-line handhelds: now it’s the turn of the GPSMAP 62 series, which will get the five-megapixel-camera-equipped 62sc and 62stc units in the third quarter of 2011. Adding the camera is only a $50 premium over the non-camera-equipped equivalents (Rich thinks that means a price drop for some units). That said, $600 for a GPS is a lot of money.

Pentax already makes a compact digital camera with built-in GPS (see previous entry) so their announcement yesterday of a GPS unit for use with some of their digital SLRs is not too surprising. The $250 O-GPS1 GPS unit works with Pentax’s K-5, K-r and medium-format 645D cameras, and appears to do a bit more than just work as a GPS logger. It’s weather-resistant (something I sometimes worry about when using my Nikon GPS unit), and it even has an astrophotography function: it uses GPS, a compass and accelerometers to figure out where the camera is pointing, and activates shake reduction to reduce star trails in long-exposure images. (Considering the wide field of view in camera lenses when used for astrophotography, that could allow much longer exposures without having to resort to an equatorial mount.) Available in July. Via Photography Blog.

Photography Blog has a review of the Fujifilm FinePix XP30, a rugged pocket digital camera with built-in GPS. The review cites some problems with both the camera’s ruggedness and its GPS. “Putting GPS on the camera is a great idea, but living in England as we do, we couldn’t get it to work because of the bad weather we experienced at the time of testing. There are good GPS systems on the market that can get a signal when indoors and in tunnels but the XP30 can’t even get through clouds.”

• Buy Fujifilm FinePix XP30 at Amazon.com (Canada, UK)

Two new point-and-shoot digital cameras from Panasonic with built-in GPS, announced in January, are available this month: the 14-megapixel travel compact ZS10 or TZ20, which I presume is a successor to the ZS7/TZ10, and the 12-megapixel ruggedized TS3 or FT3, pictured at right. (They have different product numbers in different markets.) A Navteq press release (via) talks about how these cameras use their POI data as well as lat/long coordinates. Photography Blog has a review of the TS3 (FT3), which has this to say about the GPS functions:

This provides real-time information naming the location at which your shot is being taken. This is displayed ticker-tape fashion along the bottom of the back screen. Panasonic claims the on-board info covers 203 countries, thus encouraging worldwide use, and more than a million landmarks. What’s more it appears to work, competently picking out our local National Trust property. We live on a bend in the river, which was enough to fool it, so using the camera back at home we were classified as living across the water. While in daily use GPS might seem a bit of a gimmick — and is a function that can be turned on or off at will, there’s some use to be had perhaps if you’re abroad and haven’t purchased a guidebook to otherwise discover what’s what — or want to plot the route of your travels via Google maps or the social media of your choice later. Longitude and latitude coordinates are stored in the particular JPEG image’s Exif data.

Both cameras cost $400.

Previously: Leica’s Geotagging Camera Is a Rebadged Panasonic.

• Buy Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3 at Amazon.com (Canada, UK as the FT3)
• Buy Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS10 at Amazon.com (UK as the TZ20)

Macworld has an extensive review of the GPS-equipped Casio Exilim EX-H20G. “The EX-H20G also has some of the best in-camera GPS features we’ve ever seen, thanks to its intuitive map interface, points-of-interest database, real-world location names (not just raw latitude and longitude data), and easy integration with the mapping services in Flickr, Google Earth, and Picasa.”

Previously: Casio Exilim EX-H20G Geotagging Camera.

• Buy Casio Exilim EX-H20G at Amazon.com (UK)

I was wondering what had happened to Casio’s digital camera with built-in GPS, which had been announced last year at CES and was scheduled to be released last fall (see previous entry). Turns out that in the interim it…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A couple of compact digital cameras with built-in GPS have been announced at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Japan this week: Canon’s PowerShot SX230 HS ($350) and Pentax’s Optio WG-1 GPS (pictured; also in black), which…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Via many sources, including Tim O’Reilly, here’s a New York Times article about the privacy implications of geotagged photos, which implications generally boil down to whether the person taking said photos with a GPS-enabled camera (usually a smartphone like an…  •  Continue reading this entry.

On the New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog, Rik Fairlie asks why more digital cameras don’t come with GPS. “[C]amera makers say they haven’t adopted widespread use of GPS radios in cameras because it’s expensive — it can add almost $100…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Eric Fischer won’t stop. Following up on his Geotaggers’ World Atlas (previously), he’s separated out the geodata generated by locals from that generated by tourists — locals being defined as people taking pictures of the same city over a…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The Geotaggers’ World Atlas is Eric Fischer at work again: this time he’s taken geographical data from Flickr photos, determined the speed at which the photographers were travelling based on their photos’ timestamps and geotags, and plotted them on…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Liz Gannes reports on Michael Liebhold’s argument that you can get better-than-GPS accuracy by using photographs: He said the most promising technique is to build [a] model of the world using photographs, some of them geo-coded automatically, and the rest…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Leica has announced the V-Lux 20, a compact digital camera with a built-in GPS (Digital Photography Review, Photography Blog). It’s essentially a rebadged Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 (TZ10 outside the U.S.), similarly equipped with an onboard GPS, the announcement of…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Aperture 3 was released earlier this month; the new release adds the geotagging features we previously saw in iPhoto ’09. (Previous versions of Aperture required plugins — for example, Maperture.) An important difference, noted by CNet’s comparison of the “carryover…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geotagged Flickr photos are now available via Bing Maps and Street View, and Rev Dan Catt, late of Flickr, bemoans the fact that that while Google and Microsoft had to use the API, “Yahoo, who has direct access to all…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geocoded Art geotags public-domain paintings of identifiable locations. The site requires that “a) the image is a recognizable depiction of [a] specific location (not just ‘Tuscan countryside’); and b) the image be in the public domain,” but does not include…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Sony has announced a digital camera, the evocatively named DSC-HX5V, that adds a compass to its built-in GPS. Based on my experience shooting with a GPS logger, direction is a useful bit of data to add; the question is…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Macworld reviews four geotagging applications for the iPhone. Now the iPhone geotags its own photos — if you take a photo with the iPhone’s built-in camera, it can be automatically geotagged. But these applications turn the iPhone into a GPS…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Twitter geotagging is now officially available, though only through the API — which means that third-party applications can do things with it, but it won’t show up in the web interface. It’s off by default; users have to enable it….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Shipping next month, GiSTEQ’s $69 PhotoTrackr Mini geotagger promises improved Mac and RAW compatibility, along with extra eensy-weensyness. Press release. Via Engadget. Previously: GiSTEQ GPS Loggers Now Mac-Compatible….  •  Continue reading this entry.

In Directions magazine, GeoSpatial Experts president Rick Bobbitt writes about the camera options for geotagging photos. Interestingly, and appropriate to an industry publication like Directions, he divides users into three groups: GIS professionals, non-GIS business professionals, and recreational photographers. Most…  •  Continue reading this entry.

You may recall that iPhoto ’09 supports geotagging, but requires manual input or a camera with a built-in or connected GPS unit — GPS loggers aren’t supported. Enter myTracks 2.0, a 10€ program that supports a number of GPS…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Nikon’s GP-1 geotagger, which I reviewed here last March, has a USB port for connecting directly to a computer, but apparently the (Windows-only) driver had been delayed. It’s available now, though. Via Nikon Rumors. Previously: Still Another Nikon GP-1…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Twitter is working on adding location to tweets: We’re gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Jon Bauer’s review of the Macsense Geomet’r GNC-35 GPS Receiver first appeared a year ago and has been reposted in several locations, but I only stumbled across it now on the Flickr Geotagging group. The GNC-35 connects to higher-end…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A couple of articles by Derrick Story about geotagging went up on Macworld’s website back in April: one that looks at four automatic methods of geotagging, and one on using the geotagging features of iPhoto ’09, taking manual geotagging as…  •  Continue reading this entry.

New Scientist: “David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analysed the data attached to 35 million photographs uploaded to the Flickr website to create accurate global and city maps and identify popular snapping sites.” Here’s…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The Geography of Buzz, a project of Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab, “set out to analyze the unique spatial and social dynamics that are created by the arts and entertainment industries in New York City and Los Angeles.”…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Have you read my review of the Nikon GP-1 GPS unit? You have? Good. Now here’s another one for you, by Christian Løverås. He compares his geotagging workflow using a separate GPS receiver to his workflow with the GP-1…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Introduction For several years, I’ve been keeping half an eye on the GPS logger category — these are GPS receivers that record geographical coordinates that can later be applied to digital photos. But I never got around to trying one,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Here’s another review of the Nikon GP-1 GPS unit (via the Nikon Digital Flickr group). The GP-1 is facing some pretty stiff competition, according to Nikon Rumors — at least as far as Nikon digital SLRs with 10-pin PC…  •  Continue reading this entry.

I spent some of today taking some test shots (finally!) with the Nikon GP-1 geotagger attached to my D90; I hope to have a review for you soon. Meanwhile, John Biehler’s review covers a lot of the ground I…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Maperture is a free geotagging plugin for Aperture, Apple’s pro-level photo management application. It allows you to click on a map (Maperture uses Google Maps) to assign geographical coordinates to your photos. Maperture worked as advertised on two batches of…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Richard notes the arrival of Sony’s new GPS logger. “After essentially creating the category of GPS loggers for photo geotagging with the GPS-CS1 in 2006, Sony inexplicably let the product languish for three years with only minor upgrades. They…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Joe Francica tries uploading geotagged photos from his BlackBerry Storm to Flickr; difficulties ensue (“it wasn’t a straightforward or intuitive process”)….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Here’s one way to measure geotagging’s progress: how many Flickr photos have been geotagged? Answer: about a hundred million — or around three percent of the total (via)….  •  Continue reading this entry.

For our purposes, the big news from Macworld earlier this month was iPhoto ’09’s built-in geotagging. iPhoto is not the first application to support geotagging, but it’s the first to provide a compelling answer to the question of what geotagging…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Photos aren’t the only things that can be geotagged; blog entries can, too. (So can just about any discrete piece of information, for that matter; don’t be so un-2.0.) Anyway, Blogger has added geotagging to its “Blogger in Draft” interface…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Here’s a review of Nikon’s upcoming GP-1 geotagger, which got my attention because I’m planning to lay hands on it for my D90 as soon as possible. (Which would make it my first-ever GPS unit, believe it or not.)…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Macworld’s Ben Long takes a look at geotagging; it’s another one of those big-picture introductions, briefly noting a couple of cameras with built-in GPS before going on to spend most of its time on software solutions; a couple of gadgets…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Remember that GE E1050 digital camera with the built-in GPS geotagging? Never mind: Richard found out that development on the GPS model has been suspended….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geotagging a photo means adding geographical coordinates to an image’s metadata. There are basically two ways to do it. One, add that data in real-time when the picture is being taken, using a camera’s built-in GPS or an attached GPS…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Hot on the heels of the P6000 with its built-in GPS, Nikon has announced a GPS accessory for its digital SLRs. The GP-1 clips to the hotshoe and has two cables: one that plugs into the new D90’s GPS/remote…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Those interested in geotagging may well be interested in Nikon’s newly announced P6000, a $500, 13.5-megapixel compact digital camera with a built-in GPS for automatic geotagging. As a Nikon fanboy I’m intrigued; as a digital SLR user I’m jealous….  •  Continue reading this entry.

My original plan was to write an entry about the navigation applications available for the iPhone and iPod touch by buying a few of them myself and trying them. As often occurs with my plans, that didn’t happen. In…  •  Continue reading this entry.

GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr devices — they’re GPS loggers for geotagging — are now Mac-compatible, with the release of PhotoTrackr software for the Mac; MacNN, MacCentral. Richard notes that the software “is actually a special version of JetPhoto that adds a GiSTEQ…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Marc Merlin describes how to geotag photos on Linux using GPS Visualizer and gpsPhoto; not for people who don’t like to hack with code a bit. Via Using Google Earth….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Stefan looks at three GIS and GPS applications for the Mac: GISLook & GISMeta (shapefiles in Cover Flow and Quick Look), GPSInfo (geotagging photos), and GPS2Aperture (ditto)….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools support geotagging, which is interesting, but it’s a bit hubristic to say that geotagging is going mainstream as a result of that, as the title of the article describing Pro Photo Tools’ geotagging features does. Which…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A three-part, step-by-step guide to geotagging from Uncornered Market, starting with a Sony GPS-CS1 (see previous entry) and going through a number of software packages to arrive at uploaded photos that have already been geotagged: Concepts and Basics Importing and…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Over at the Geotagging Flickr group, Michael Kirk has posted a review of still another geotagging accessory for a digital SLR camera, Solmeta’s DP-GPS N1, which works with high-end Nikon and compatible digital SLRs (i.e., D200 and up, Fuji…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geophoto has reached version 2: MacNN reports that it now features simpler tagging, “now sports closer integration with iLife ‘08 and .Mac Web Galleries, and can import photos from Aperture and Lightroom”; at $25, it’s also half its previous price….  •  Continue reading this entry.

If, like me, you’re a Mac user with an interest in geotagging, you must drop everything right now and read Bruce McKenzie’s guide to geotagging photos on the Mac; a more comprehensive guide to the subject I can’t imagine. Via…  •  Continue reading this entry.

I’ve had a few items cluttering up my to-do list that relate to Apple, the Mac and Mac software, and the iPhone/iPod since Macworld; time to stop procrastinating. iPhones and iPods. The iPhone’s mapping application got a major upgrade at…  •  Continue reading this entry.

An update on this entry: the proposed geotagging icon now has a new design (it’s red) and a new home page. Via La Cartoteca….  •  Continue reading this entry.

A guide to building a homemade GPS attachment for a Nikon digital SLR that mounts on the hotshoe and connects via the 10-pin connector. If you’re at all uncomfortable with using a soldering iron, go no further. Via MAKE:…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Two recent articles on geotagging, both of which describe it as an emerging trend, mainstream acceptance of which is just around the corner. This Associated Press story describes its potential and its utility, along with current methods, but notes that…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Bruce McKenzie proposes a standard icon to indicate geotagged content, in the same vein as standard icons for RSS and so forth. Funnily enough, it’s a pushpin. Via Richard….  •  Continue reading this entry.

David Thulin is searching for a geotagging camera: I have been looking far and wide for the tools needed for immediate and automatic geotagging of images taken. My quest took me through Yahoo! Answers, numerous searches through forums and gadget-sites…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Jobo has reannounced its Photo GPS camera accessory, which attaches via the camera’s hot shoe (or PC terminal, if your camera has one and you need a flash) and adds geographical data to your image files’ EXIF data when…  •  Continue reading this entry.

I make a point of noting when digital cameras with built-in GPS and geotagging are announced. And, while GE isn’t exactly known for consumer digital cameras, its new E1050 camera does have built-in GPS for in-camera geotagging, which I…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Flickr Places organizes geotagged photos into location-based pages — even my little town gets its own page. Meanwhile, Flickr’s map goes from pushpins to tags, which may necessarily not be an improvement. Announcements: Flickr Blog, Yahoo Local and Maps…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The holy grail of geotagging is to embed GPS-derived lat/long data into a photo’s EXIF data at the moment it’s taken. There have been a few options for high-end Nikon digital SLRs; now here’s another one: the GeoPic II…  •  Continue reading this entry.

“The state of the union between inexpensive GPS loggers and the Mac is not so good,” Richard writes in a post looking at the state of Macintosh compatibility and support — both current and potential — for four GPS loggers….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Free Geography Tools had a seven-part geotagging series last month beginning with this post; it covered a number of Windows applications that I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of. Richard Akerman has a couple of relevant posts on his Science…  •  Continue reading this entry.

KPIX-TV, the San Francisco CBS station, has a report on geotagging that covers at least two of the three bases — viz., manually geotagging photos and syncing photos with a GPS data logger — and mentions a couple of geotagging…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Another Mac geotagging application to add to an already surprisingly large pile: Magrathea. Free (donationware), integrates with iLife and Flickr. Via Geotagging Flickr. Previously: More Mac Geotagging Utilities; Geophoto: Mac Geotagging Software; GPS, Geotagging Automator Actions for the Mac;…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Picasa Web Albums, Google’s photo sharing site, now has geotagging: photos can be placed on a map; visitors can view an album’s photos on a map or from within Google Earth. It’s more limited than what you can do with…  •  Continue reading this entry.

I use Flickr to post my photos online, and I’m interested in geotagging my photos, so when Flickr made available some additional geotagged feed options, I paid attention. Beta support for GeoRSS feeds for people and tags, with group GeoRSS…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Mashup makers take note: the Google Maps API now supports driving directions. Google has gone and bought photo-geotagging site Panoramio. At a Developer Day talk, Google’s plans for integrating AdSense into its map products. (Disclaimer: I make money from AdSense.)…  •  Continue reading this entry.

If you’re using a high-end Nikon digital SLR (D200 and above), the simplest method of adding lat/long coordinates to your photo’s EXIF data is to use the MC-35 GPS adapter cable, which has a port for a GPS receiver’s serial…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Richard has a review of the GlobalSat DG-100 GPS data logger, which can be used for geotagging (if the clocks on the data logger and camera are in sync). And presumably tracerouting. He also compares it to the Sony…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geotagging links have been piling up in my note-taking application; time to flush the queue. How to geocode your photos, a long post on bike-community.net. Via GPS Tracklog. HoudahGeo is a Mac-only geotagging app. $35. Via Ogle Earth and TUAW….  •  Continue reading this entry.

GeoRSS and KML support has been added to the Google Maps API, which should have a major impact on how map mashups acquire their data. Since GeoRSS appears to be trivial to add to RSS feeds (Flickr can outputs GeoRSS…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Over on Ogle Earth, Stefan reviews Geophoto, the Mac-only geotagging photo application announced in January. “I’m conflicted about Geophoto,” he writes. “It is exceptionally simple, but it costs $50 for far less functionality than what you get in Google Earth…  •  Continue reading this entry.

An awful lot of geotagging utilities for the Mac (adding metadata to a file is probably not a difficult programming task). Here are two more, from the same company: PhotoInfoEditor and PhotoGPSEditor; they’re practically identical except that the latter adds…  •  Continue reading this entry.

James and Dan are enthusiastic about Ricoh’s release of the 500SE GPS-ready digital camera, but I’m not sure how groundbreaking this is. (By which I mean that I’m confused and seek enlightenment; I’m not speaking rhetorically.) For one thing, it’s…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Also at Macworld, a new geotagging and photomapping application called Geophoto was announced: it apparently integrates with iPhoto on the one hand and Flickr and photo RSS feeds on the other, allowing you to both assign coordinates to your photos…  •  Continue reading this entry.

For Mac users, some Automator actions to tell you about: GPS Automator Actions (which require GPSBabel) is a collection of scripts that automate downloading data from, and uploading to, a GPS unit and converting file formats; GeoTagging Automator Action…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A good article on geotagging in today’s New York Times that could stand as a general introduction to the subject: it explains how geodata can be assigned to photos, discusses the photo-sharing services that support it, and mentions a few…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Mapz: A GIS Librarian takes a look at some mapping-related Firefox extensions: All Your Maps Are Belong to Us, which converts URLs for other mapping sites to Google Maps; GMiF, which embeds a Google Map on a Flickr photo page…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Rev Dan Catt reveals three hidden(ish) Flickr map features, including GeoRSS, microformats (both automatically built into RSS feeds and photo pages, respectively) and URL shortcuts….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Zack reviews three geotagging software options: TopoFusion, WWMX and GPS Visualizer, and RoboGeo. Via GPS Tracklog….  •  Continue reading this entry.

This post about hidden GPS and mapping settings in iPhoto has been making the rounds of the Mac rumour mill and the mapping blogs (AppleInsider, Ed Parsons, GPS Review, MacRumors, Ogle Earth). My response is, cool your jets, everyone. If…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A choropleth map of Flickr photos as a KMZ file for Google Earth; it shows how many photos from each lat/long grid have been uploaded to Flickr. I was intrigued to see that unexpected places like St. Helena and…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Richard has managed to lay hands on a new Sony GPS-CS1, the small gadget that records time and location data and comes with software that allows you to add that location data to the photos you took at that…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Third-party geotagging services are adopting the new Flickr API geo extensions, the Flickr blog reports, so they’re not in danger of extinction quite yet. See previous entries: Flickr Geotagging Roundup; Flickr Adds Geotagging….  •  Continue reading this entry.

The Flickr blog reports that 1.2 million photos were geotagged within the first 24 hours. (That’s half a percent of the total.) That post also talks about some of the behind-the-scenes search technology, admits that the maps (provided by Yahoo!,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

As anticipated, Flickr has launched an in-house geotagging system. It uses a map-based user interface rather than tags applied by one of the many third-party geotagging hacks, and it does so from within the Organizr. There are video tutorials on…  •  Continue reading this entry.

For those of us who have our photos on Flickr, geotagging tools that integrate with that photo-hosting service are, of course, of considerable interest (see previous entry). But, given that Yahoo! owns Flickr now and also has a respectable mapping…  •  Continue reading this entry.

If you have a Flickr account and are interested in geotagging, don’t miss Frank’s roundup on Google Earth Blog: Three Flickr Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth — the point of which is to allow you to browse geotagged Flickr…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A bit more on geotagging — adding geographic coordinates to digital photos. One the one hand there’s having a GPS-enabled camera; on the other there’s adding latitude and longitude manually. Some options in between the two extremes are emerging which…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Via Ogle Earth: GPS Photo Linker is software to save GPS data to a photo. iPhotoToGoogleEarth exports photos to Google Earth. You should have GPS data assigned to the photo data; isn’t it handy that you already have GPS Photo…  •  Continue reading this entry.

A look back on Google’s Geo Developer Day on Monday, with some additional links on the subject. For summaries of the event, look at these reports from MacWorld and Search Engine Watch. The Google Maps API Blog discusses the…  •  Continue reading this entry.

More geotagging coverage. Tim’s page covers the steps involved in taking photos from a GPS-compatible digital camera (in this case, the droolworthy Nikon D200) and placing them on a Google Map; with source code (via Google Maps Mania). On the…  •  Continue reading this entry.

I haven’t covered geotagging — adding location data to digital photos (and then doing neat things with that data) — as much as I’d like to, and I’ve got a lot of links on the subject gathering dust in my…  •  Continue reading this entry.

GMiF (“Google Maps in Flickr”) is a Greasemonkey script (a Firefox browser extension) that allows you to see your geotagged photos on Google Maps from within Flickr. Thanks to Noel for the link….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Forbes has a big-picture introduction to Google Maps applications and the growing trend of geotagging as much information on the web as possible. Via Cartography….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Geotagging comes in many flavours. First, let’s take a look at Tagzania, a web site where you can add keywords to specific geographic locations, and track that keyword via RSS. I’m not sure how scalable this concept is; imagine the…  •  Continue reading this entry.

MAKE: Blog has a geotagging tutorial that covers every step of the process and several different web services: taking the photo, getting the lat/long coordinates from a GPS or Google Maps, uploading the photos to Flickr, adding the lat/long coordinates…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Some more hacks, news and commentary about Google Maps that I’ve been saving up for another one of these roundup posts: Google Maps hacking gets mentioned on CNN (via Google Maps Mania). Google has deployed a 3D mapping truck in…  •  Continue reading this entry.

More on geotagging, Geobloggers and Flickr: there’s now a geotagging group on Flickr that discusses ways and means of incorporating location metadata into Flickr photos. Via Google Maps Mania. See previous entries: Automating Geotagging, Google Maps Plus Flickr….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Steeev has come up with some scripts (Firefox and Greasemonkey required) to automate the process of geotagging your Flickr photos for Geobloggers (see previous entry). Via MAKE: Blog….  •  Continue reading this entry.

We’ve seen Google Maps posted to Flickr; now, thanks to a little Google Map hackery and the Flickr API, there’s another Google Maps mashup, Geobloggers, which puts geotagged photos on a Google Maps-generated map. All you need to do is…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Honey, I Geotagged the Kids: an essay by Douglas Rushkoff on the new collaborative mapping technologies — many of which have been featured here, though I haven’t assigned them their own category yet….  •  Continue reading this entry.