Thursday
05Feb2009
One Hundred Meeeelioooonnnn Photos
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 04:57AM
Rev Dan Catt writes, on the Flickr code blog:
This is starting to get seriously, seriously interesting. Combine that with GPS-enabled devices, and you get a fascinating data set to explore.
Darkslide uses this data in two ways: the smash-hit Near Me feature, which shows you photos near your current location, and Places, which lets you search for a place and see photos tagged in that area.
I can't wait for the day when GPS is a standard feature of all cameras, but in the meantime, Derrick Story has been writing about the Jobo PhotoGPS hot-shoe GPS unit, which looks quite interesting and a lot more convenient than some other solutions.
Over the weekend we broke the Hundred Million geotagged photos, actually 100,868,302 at last count, mark. If we remember that we passed the 3 billion photos recently and round the figure down a little that means (does calculations on fingers) that around 3.333% of photos have geo data, or one in every 30 photos that get uploaded.
In the last two and a half years there have been roughly as many geotagged photos as the total photos upload to Flickr in its first two years of existence.
This is starting to get seriously, seriously interesting. Combine that with GPS-enabled devices, and you get a fascinating data set to explore.
Darkslide uses this data in two ways: the smash-hit Near Me feature, which shows you photos near your current location, and Places, which lets you search for a place and see photos tagged in that area.
I can't wait for the day when GPS is a standard feature of all cameras, but in the meantime, Derrick Story has been writing about the Jobo PhotoGPS hot-shoe GPS unit, which looks quite interesting and a lot more convenient than some other solutions.
Reader Comments (2)
I've been using HoudahGeo with my Garmin bike GPS - as long as your camera's clock is set correctly (probably the kind of thing most readers of your blog would feel compelled to do anyway) it couldn't get much easier: simply turn the GPS on, walk around all day and plug the GPS in when you get home. Not needing to buy, carry or charge more gear was the selling point for me - about the only way it'd get easier would be if it was either built in or - better - the camera could simply use something like bluetooth to get the location & timestamp from my phone.
I am sorry you don't mention that your iPhone can also be used as a GPS recorder for that kind of things. I have made TrackMe precisely with that original goal in mind : be able to extract GPX files and match them with your pictures taken with another camera.
I have made a small screencast using TrackMe and Lightroom and GPSPhotoLinker (Houdageo is fine too). http://trackmehq.com/images/screencastgpstrackme.mov