- Introducing the Organizr
- Creating Batches
- Creating Sets
- Creating Collections
- Adding Photos to Maps
- Summary
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Adding Photos to Maps
There's something else you can do to organize your photos on Flickr: You can geotag them by positioning them on Flickr's global map.
What does that mean? It means you can drag and drop your photos on a map, which will store their location. Then when someone looks at your photos in your photostream, a small Map link will appear by the photos that have been geotagged. Clicking that link opens a map that shows where the photo was taken (and the map also shows the location of other Flickr photos that have been geotagged nearby to help foster a sense of community).
This is a great feature for travelogues, vacations, or expeditions of any kind, and it allows people to see exactly where a specific photo was taken along, say, your trek to the South Pole.
To get started, open Organizr (click the Organize link in any Flickr page), and then click the Map tab in Organizr.
The first time you open the Map tab, Flickr will display a warning dialog box, asking you to specify who can see the location of your photos, as shown in Figure 3.14.
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Figure 3.14 The Flickr warning for maps.
If you're worried about cyberstalkers, you might want to restrict who can see the geotagging of your photos. Here are the choices for restricting that information, as given in the dialog box:
- Only You
- Your Friends and/or Family
- Your Family
- Your Friends
- Your Contacts
- Anyone (Recommended)
Make your selection in this dialog box (Anyone is selected by default) and click the Set Default Permission button. A confirmation dialog box appears, so click OK to dismiss that box.
Now the map itself appears in Organizr, as shown in Figure 3.15.
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Figure 3.15 The Organizr map tab.
You can use the zoom bar on the right to zoom in on the part of the world you want to see, as shown in Figure 3.16.
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Figure 3.16 Zooming in on the map.
When you're sufficiently zoomed in, you can drag photos from the Findr to the map and drop them where you want them, as shown in Figure 3.17.
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Figure 3.17 Dropping a photo on a map.
Where does the map information show up? That is, how can people see it? When you geotag a photo, a Map link appears in that photo's photostream entry, as shown in Figure 3.18.
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Figure 3.18 A Map link has been added to the photostream entry.
When you click the Map link for a geotagged photo, the global map opens, and you can see the location of the photo on the map—along with the location of other photos from other users that have been geotagged nearby, as shown in Figure 3.19.
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Figure 3.19 Opening a photo's map.