Adding metadata to stuff can be a pain in your proverbial back-end. Especially if you, like me, take a lot of pictures, but do not own a camera that adds GPS coords automatically for you.
Lucky for me, the guys at Sumaato Labs (based in Hamburg, Germany) have made my life geotagging photos in Flickr a whole lot easier. Because they’ve built the Localize Bookmarklet
Here is how it works. You drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar (Firefox) or bookmarks (IE).
Open up a Flickr photo page.
Hit the bookmarklet…..and you’ll get Google Maps right there in your Flickr page.
Search your location. And put the arrow where you want it.
Save, while adding a little description if you want.
And now the geodata is stored in three places. Under the pic, in the tags, and in the Flickr Additional Info section. Cool! Don’t you just love AJAX and API’s when it’s used like this?
Another elegant feature: it remembers the last location you used for geotagging. Because your next picture is more likely to have been taken near there.
Oh and one more thing. I really miss the geotagging feature in Plazes for Flickr photos (as Plazes already know where I am/was, I could skip the interaction with a map.)
Tag: geotagging
South Korea Big on RFID
Even if the lame and over-used example of the self-restocking fridge is used as an example again, this is interesting news:
South Korea is investing $800 million in RFID.
Chin, the Korean minister for information and communication has said that the South Korean government thinks RFID will be at least as big as mobile phones.
The Korean government, which said RFID will replace barcodes, is building several research and development centres in the country for different technologies. RFID production is planned for next year in the northern city of Songdo and will receive funding between 2005 and 2010.
They already had pilots using RFID with tracing beef, ammunition stocks, and tracking luggage at an airport.
Add geo-tagging and IPv6 to the mix and you have geographic and object-centered micro-content for people to play with and build relationships on. Opens up a new realm of possibilities.