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Picasa 2 Out of Beta

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published September 20, 2006

Recall my review of Picasa 2 + web albums a little while ago? Well it is finally out of beta and comes with a few fixes and updates …

We’ve also fixed a whole bunch of things in Picasa. Folders finally work as you’d expect, so people who’ve kept their photos meticulously organized in folders and subfolders can see them displayed the same way in Picasa. And we’ve added a shiny new feature to photo-editing: Save. Your Picasa edits can now be preserved when using other programs. The save feature is even undoable, so you never lose your original files.

And there’s more — you can import into any folder you like, make time-lapse sequences into movies, search by color, create a screensaver with beautiful visual effects, and even re-arrange Picasa’s buttons. Oh, and we also made Picasa work with Google Earth, so you can put information about where you went on vacation into the photos themselves, and then, view your shots on a 3-D globe. Try it all out for yourself at picasa.google.com

Via: Google Blog

On of the things I have been waiting for is now present, you can more easily import into an existing folder. I hope it is more robust too, it used to crash for me when importing many gigabytes of files at once.

I have got to test how flickr reacts to the Google Earth / Picasa geo tagging, that might be the solution I have been looking for if flickr reads them.

Interesting is the time-lapse movie export – I have had a time lapse set hanging around my laptop for ages, will be good to try that out.

All good stuff, please do try it out and let me know in the comments what you think of it!

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Adding Accuracy to Flickr Geotagging Maps

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published September 1, 2006

I have been getting quite frustrated with the Yahoo! maps that Flickr uses. The maps are great, when they have the mapping data. Which isn’t very often. In fact so rare the whole thing is pretty lame. Tagging pictures at the moment has all the accuracy of drunken pin the tail on the donkey. So I was real pleased when I saw this today on Utata

Perhaps the single greatest complaint regarding flickr’s new Geotagging functionality is the lack of street level coverage that yahoo maps provides for many regions of the world. In many regions outside North America it can be very frustrating to accurately place your photos. This frustration is often compounded by the fact that Google Maps may have extremely high resolution of that same area. Flickr responded to this need by opening up Geotagging data through the flickr API, allowing outside developers to add increased functionality on top of flickr’s maps. Within a day of the API being open, Trippermap had already converted to the new system. Further, they have provided an online tutorial on how to use their service to geotag using Google Earth

While it won’t make the map experience any better currently, at least you know when they finally get the data your stuff will be in the right place.

Check out Trippermap and their online tutorial on how to use their service.

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Flickr Maps Geotagging

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published August 29, 2006

flickr-geotagging-mapFlickr finally added their geotagging “map” feature. You can find it in organizer and it works in a drag and drop way similar to creating sets. Find where you want to locate your pictures and drag them to the spot. Screencast here.

Also look out for the “detail view” now available in sets that makes your set viewable like the photostream interface.

D’Arcy has been busy creating a map of the University of Calgary. Have you used this yet? Share your maps in the comments …

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Flickr Flirts With Geotagging

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published August 25, 2006

According to Utata Daily Ink Flickr might have Geotagging soon …

strange things are afoot over at flickr. Sudden apparitions.. Here one moment and gone the next. What manner of haunting is this? a “map” link above a photostream? longitude and latitude fields in the flickr organizr? All signs that flickr’s long rumored entry into Geotagging is fast approaching

Up to now I think I have only ever geotagged one photograph and it was such a pain never bothered since, if it’s easy it could be cool. Zooomr has something around maps I think?

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Got a Nokia? Automatic Geotagging

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published February 28, 2006

This Yahoo! service works with Nokia 60 series mobile phones and allows you to send your cameraphone photographs to Flickr along with your location and coordinates.

GeoTagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds or images. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude and placenames.

Geocoding also refers to the process of taking non-coordinate based
geographical identifiers, such as a postal address, and converting them
into geographic coordinates.

GeoTagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific
information. For instance, one can find images taken near a given
location by entering a latitude and longtitude into a
GeoTagging-enabled image search engine. GeoTagging-enabled information
services can also potentially be used to find news, websites, or other
resources.

It’s a shame that the ZoneTag will only work with certain Nokia mobiles but all the same it’s an interesting service. It would be great if our DSLRs could have GPS built in, I am sure they have the processor power. If they only allowed bluetooth (which would have other uses too, such as transmitting and transferring photographs) they could perhaps work with off the shelf GPS units.

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