Er, yes... I should have said geo-tagging. (I must have mixed up my
original post with my other one to the gpswanking mailing list.) I'm
open to any way of estimating the location for where a picture was taken.
Thanks, Andrew, for your list of sites and suggestions. Here is another
one I found, which seems similar to zonetag:
http://meaning.3xi.org/
I fairly surprised that that more phones don't support sending location
with pictures, given the abundance of phone with cameras and the FCC's
requirement for reporting location for 911 calls from cell phones.
- Tyler
Andrew Turner wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Tyler Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am interested in information on sending pictures with GPS coordinates from
a cell phone. The purpose would be to collect rough locations of potential
invasive species. 'Potential' because this information could be submitted
by non-experts who are not sure whether or not the plant is an invasive
species.
I realize that there may be multiple ways to do this (sms, email, etc), but
I am primarily interested in the most universally available methods, such
that a small army of data collectors could send in pictures.
What is the approx % of phones out there that can send GPS-tagged
pictures?
Do you mean "GPS-", or "geo-" tagged? :)
My suggestion would be to use Flickr as your common infrastructure for
gathering and tagging these photographs.
Flickr already has a mobile geolocating photo application: ZoneTag:
http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/
It works on a wide range of phones
(http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/phonelist.php), so you don't have
to worry about who has what phone, and also supports Cell (and I think
Wifi) geolocation. But ZoneTag does require some sort of data plan,
depending on the carrier (check out the ZoneTag FAQ).
There are several other "Flickr" clients that you may be able to
suggest to users, depending on their phones. In addition, Flickr
supports submitting by email and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service,
like photo-SMS). And also users could use their normal cameras and
upload to Flickr using any client or the web interface.
The benefit of using Flickr is that they can handle your photo
upload/reformatting/hosting and tagging. Users could come in after the
fact and even geotag photos that weren't automatic. They could then
also add tags on the species (if they know) and also your project
name.
Then you can just subscribe the GeoRSS or KML feed, or use the Flickr
API, to pull all the photos for the project at regular intervals.
If you wanted a "customized" user-friendly interface, just write a
thin layer on top of Flickr that uses the Flickr API (and optionally
extend in the future to support SmugMug, Picasa, etc.)
Andrew
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