RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

[Brendan Quinn]

it has a bit under the copyright line that says "taken in london, england [map]" so presumably the creator, or someone else, went and clicked on that place in the map. Once you have a lat/long pair, it doesn't matter whether you use a postcode, area name, box drawn on a picture, or something else, it all just comes down to number comparison... I'm sure they just map "London N8" to a particular bounding box of X/Y coordinates or lat/long pairs.

 

You're not dumb, you probably just missed the "taken in london" bit like I nearly did ;-)

 

Brendan.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Boardwell
Sent: 10 November 2006 17:05
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

well - "you're looking at all geo-tagged photos in london" is a bit misleading / ambiguous.  wouldn't it be better to pull out the geo data and then use the semantic data [words] of places etc? that would at least allow for some value on the photos themselves. they could then say with greater confidence where the image 'is'.

having said that it's great how it can take in multiple geo-data 'types' e.g. postcode! 
http://www.flickr.com/map/N8+uk
but how does flickr know that this photo was taken in N8 for e.g.?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/festivalhall/249180992/

sure the kings head pub is in crouch end which is in N8 but this isn't explicitly stated on the page.  is flickr cross referencing crouch end with postcode data?

sorry - i'm dumb. ;-)

JB

On 11/10/06, Andrew Disley < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

On 10 Nov 2006, at 16:09, James Boardwell wrote:

is there any pref given to the data?  i.e. geodata / celldata over tags: lodon, greenpark? is it possible to tell?  

From the page itself:

"You're looking at

All geotagged photos in London."

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