If you’re photo-geeky enough to geo-locate your Flickr shots, or just want to find pics of a certain place or landmark, Flickr has added links that map out nearby photos .Third-party developers have already had access to a geo-specific search function in Flickr, but now anyone can see what’s next to their mapped photos, or the more than 100 million photos geotagged by everyone else. The quick and text-y way is to add /nearby to the URL of any Flickr photo page. The click-ier method is to hit the “map” link in the “Additional Information” section, then choose “See nearby photos and videos.” You can then scale and zoom on the resulting Yahoo Map mashup, and filter which nearby shots you see by date, friends or strangers, and sorting technique. Note that the photos are shown in groups of 20 or so at a time—you have to click “Next” on the bottom of the page, like any Flickr search result, to see more. The total randomness of what you see can be really intriguing, and if you’re a true photo geek, the nearby function might help you find great angles and subjects to shoot, based on where others have trod before you.
Things I’m Standing Next To [code.flickr blog via ReadWriteWeb]If Google Maps’ integration of geotagged photos piqued your interest, Wired blogger Charlie Sorrel focuses his lens on geotagging photos, the practice of adding location to a photo’s metadata that will tell you where a photo was taken. He highlights several options for the budding geotagger, from for-a-price solutions, like the new Eye-Fi Explore SD card and GPS cameras, to no-cost solutions, like Flickr’s integrated geotagging tools. We’ve also covered a couple of no-cost geotagging options in the past that might do the trick, but for the not-that-high price of $US130, the Eye-Fi Explore is an excellent upgrade to my beloved Eye-Fi memory card. How to Geotag Your Photos [Wired]
Now that you know how to stitch together panoramic photos with free software, publish your creations at Panoye, a panoramic sharing web site. Panoye users are building “a virtual tour all around Earth” with user-submitted panoramic images. Upload, tag, geotag, and share your panoramas on Panoye, which offers YouTube-like HTML markup to embed a pannable panoramic image onto your own web site, like the one after the jump:
