Comments on: Geotagging Photos: Zooomr

By: SB: Relaxing on the Trail » Many museum bloggers and Zooomr

SB: Relaxing on the Trail » Many museum bloggers and Zooomr — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:08:48 +0000

[...] I discovered a new museums and history blog from the UK, Past Thinking. According to its author, “Past Thinking is a blog about where the past meets the future, covering archaeology, history, computing, and where they all meet.” Most recent posts discuss archaeology and dealing with geo-tagging photos with Zooomr. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:30:12 +0000

That’s the way forward; gps feeding straight into a camera. I like the idea of geotagging but in practice, it’s a bit of a pain. There are fields within the exif metadata standard for location, so why not use them and automatically populate them from a gps unit…? Ideal solution :-)

atb,
Paul.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:10:15 +0000

Thanks for responding Kristopher - it’s encouraging to know that a) you’re managing to run Zooomr and still reply personally on people’s blogs, and b) that community tools are on there way. This is great news.

On a social level, people are tied to places, not just on a physical level - but memories of places, and pictures are memories in a way. To be able to tie the two together in a natural way is certainly the way forward, especially since GPS is beginning to appear in digital cameras now.

Keep it up! :-)

By: Kristopher Tate

Kristopher Tate — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:37:09 +0000

Hi there and thanks for posting Zooomr!

I suppose I’ve tried to make sure that geotagging is as simple and easy as possible. Though, in regard to community, we’re steadfast on building community systems into the whole picture.

Flickr does a good job, but there is just sooo much more than can be done when you look at it.

Looking forward to showing it to you and others.

Best,

Kristopher Tate