There are lots of geotagged Flickr photos, but it's worth checking out Picasa's too. They have fewer total geotagged photos than Flickr, but more distinct locations. Flickr also seems to have the dense urban areas better covered while Picasa seems to have broader geographic coverage, including places like Yosemite.
Eric On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Andrew Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > There are seemingly endless Flickr photos. > > On my website, we have a widget that finds Flickr photos near a certain > place. It checks geo-coordinates, and tries to match tags and such too. > > It will usually find many pictures that are of "Yosemite" or other popular > places, while less traveled places sometimes not. But I've been pretty > surprised at the coverage of the photos. > > You can click the Photos tab here to see Flickr photos: > http://www.trailbehind.com > > Andrew > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 27 Apr 2009, at 02:39, Paul Harwood wrote: >> >> >>> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17017-gallery-flickr-user-traces-make-accidental-maps.html >>> >> >> http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/28/interesting-2/ >> >> Best >> >> Steve >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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