Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Flickr Meets Google Maps Uptown
A nice bit of web application mash-up geowank, courtesy of Geobloggers.com:
If you tag your Flickr photographs with geotagged, geo:lat=xx.xxxx and geo:lon=xx.xxxx, then add a link to Geobloggers.com in the photograph description, you can click that link to see a Google Maps map displaying photographs taken nearby by yourself and others. It works with usernames too, so you can see a Google Maps view of your tagged photographs.
Try it out on this tedious snap of a rainbow on Gibson Street, Glasgow, or take a look at my Geobloggers page.
(Of course, finding the coordinates of a given location isn’t always easy - I just happened to know, roughly, the longitude and latitude of Gibson Street because I used to live at the top of it. Feel free to point and laugh.)
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Indeed an excellent application.
However : “finding the coordinates of a given location isn’t always easy” - it is now, with Firefox and greasemonkey.
This website details how to set up the firefox browser such that Google Maps will tell you the lat/long, and creates tags that can be pasted straight into flickr. :)
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Thanks for the tip subflux - the more I find out about Greasemonkey, the more it’s making me want to switch to Firefox.
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