Zonetag Continued

I think the whole idea of Zonetag is quite cool and the website I found is very helpful and clear about how to install it and get it running. This would be quite a good thing to set up if I was to include a map and geotagging system within my project. It is very simple, quick and effective for people geotagging their photos or videos and saves them time as they don’t have to go on the Internet, upload them and then go through the process of adding their location to them.

Zonetag

Zonetag is made by Yahoo Research Berkeley and provides a way of sending geotaged photos to Flickr via a mobile phone and a GPS unit. The site takes you through the steps to install Zonetag on your phone and to set up an account with Yahoo which you need in order to be able to use it. It then takes you though the process of connecting a GPS unit to your mobile so that when you send a photo to Flickr it is linked with the exact co-ordinates that the photo was taken.

Zonetag

Bibliography:

Websites:

• Zonetag Photos, (2006), available at:http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/(accessed: Monday 30^th October 2006)

• Plasticbag.org, Geotagging With Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS, (2006), available at:http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/10/geotagging_with_zonet/(accessed: Monday 30^th October 2006)

Flickr Geotagging

While researching about geotagging I came across a link to Flickr, who have now started up a new aspect to their website where people can geotag their photographs. They provide an overview of how to do it, but its pretty simple all you have to do is basically drag and drop photos to a location. This location can be as specific as the person wants, even down to the street name for example. You can also search for specific things such as photos of architecture in South America.

Flickr Geotagged Photos on Map

Photos Geotagged to Street Names

Bibliography:

Websites:

• Flickr Blog, (2006), available at:http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/great_shot_wher.html(accessed: Friday 27^th October 2006) 
• Flickr Blog, (2006), available at:http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/geotagging_one_.html(accessed: Friday 27^th October 2006)

 

Geotagging

Geotagging is where items on the Internet such as articles, photos, blogs, videos and pod casts, etc are given geographical data. This geographical data is connected to a photograph for example and then to Google or Yahoo map to show where it was taken. The geographical identification metadata usually includes the longitude and latitude coordinates and also altitude and place names.

Bibliography:

Websites:

• Wikipedia The Free Encylopedia – Geocaching, (2006), available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoTagging

  (accessed: Friday 27^th October 2006)

• Micro Persuasion, (2006), available at:http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/09/location_locati.html(accessed: Friday 27^th October 2006)