How do you sort out your photos?

superscaper

Marty999 wrote: »

I have never heard of geo tagging until now, is it really that useful?

Depends on whether you personally would find it useful and what you are using it for. All it means is tagging it with the location usually coordinates of where the photo was taken. I think you can combine that with google earth so how useful that is depends on the individual.

Lakeuk

Personally I wouldn't geotag a photo manually (too much hassle), but if like me when out walking you use a gps then it's worth keeping it turned on as the gps stores details of everywhere you've been.

Then it's just a case of downloading to the pc the track from the gps, your photos from your camera, tell the geotag software where the track is stored and the directory for the photos and the software does the rest automatically of storing in the photo's exif details the location where it was taken.

Picasa reconises this so you can view your phones offline with google earth and online on the Picasa web album. Following is an example from my web album:-
http://picasaweb.google.com/David.J.Whitehead/20070629_Borrowdale_Castlerigg/photo#map

Marty999

Lakeuk wrote: »

Following is an example from my web album:-
http://picasaweb.google.com/David.J.Whitehead/20070629_Borrowdale_Castlerigg/photo#map

Thanks but I can't get your link to work.

Lakeuk

See if following link works and click on 'view map' button

http://picasaweb.google.com/David.J.Whitehead/20070629_Borrowdale_Castlerigg

Marty999

Lakeuk wrote: »

See if following link works and click on 'view map' button

http://picasaweb.google.com/David.J.Whitehead/20070629_Borrowdale_Castlerigg

Yes the link works but when I click 'view map' I still get the same error message - 500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.

Any ideas?

Lakeuk

Marty999 wrote: »

Yes the link works but when I click 'view map' I still get the same error message - 500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.

Any ideas?

I'd say it's going to be a problem at googles end, works at my end with IE6 and Firefox 2.0

Marty999

Lakeuk wrote: »

I'd say it's going to be a problem at googles end, works at my end with IE6 and Firefox 2.0

Yes that's the answer - Opera is not supported on this site. Firefox works fine so I can now see what you mean, thanks for your patience!

Gabs27

I had always uploaded a copy of photos to yahoo so wasn't pleased to see they were closing but have started using Picasa and so far am really impressed.

Don't think much of Flikr on yahoo - I think you can only keep 200 pictures on there for free after the trial period