www.nickhodge.com

Uncle Mike talked about this last week: why you tag your pho­tos (cc) and geotag your photos.

Unlike other large cor­por­a­tions who have mis-used (cc) licensed pho­tos, Schmap cor­rectly asked and obtained per­mis­sion to use one of my pho­tos on their site:

Schmap Christ­ch­urch Third Edi­tion: Photo Inclusion

Hi Nick,
I am delighted to let you know that your two sub­mit­ted pho­tos have been selec­ted for inclu­sion in the newly released third edi­tion of our Schmap Christ­ch­urch Guide:
God­ley Head
www.schmap.com/christchurch/sights_attractions/p=174111/i=174111_2.jpg
God­ley Head
www.schmap.com/christchurch/sights_attractions/p=174111/i=174111_3.jpg
If you like the guide and have a web­site, blog or per­sonal page, then please also check out our schmap­plets — cus­tom­iz­able wid­get­ized ver­sions of our Schmap Christ­ch­urch Guide, com­plete with your pub­lished pho­tos:
www.schmap.com/schmapplets/p=37473564N00/c=SE51033694
Thanks so much for let­ting us include your pho­tos — please enjoy the guide!

Like all pic­tures, there is a back story, too.

Note: 11^th September

(cc) Cre­at­ive Com­mons Aus­tralia has fur­ther discussion

Who are you? What does a photo say about the real you that text does not?

Feel free to find a Flickr photo of your­self, tag and write. Think, express, con­nect and empathise.

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/iworkontheweb/

Nick Hodge, Flickr.com, Geot­agged: spent the greater part of today geot­ag­ging my images stored in Flickr. Geot­ag­ging is the addi­tion of spa­cial or geo­graph­ical metadata (that is: lat­it­ude and lon­git­ude) to my uploaded images. The four cam­eras I’ve used do not have GPS, so this geot­ag­ging caper is a manual post-processing effort.

The res­ol­u­tion of the Yahoo! Map Images for Sydney and Lon­don are excel­lent, the maps suck (unless you are in the US!). Even Tokyo’s map was strangely low res­ol­u­tion. At the time of writ­ing, 600,000 images have a geotag accord­ing to Flickr. Microsoft’s Local Live and Google’s Google Maps are way better.

Why invest the time?

Some­where, someday, someone is going to use this data to find out where someone was on a cer­tain day. Or, some smart soft­ware is going to cre­ate an inter­est­ing view of our world.
Time has been a part of the EXIF cam­era data for many years. These two dimen­sions are excel­lent for loc­at­ing on a simple 2D map, but do not give enough “res­ol­u­tion” to be for our Vir­tual Future. Apart from the height, the tar­get, tilt and head­ing would provide more data: Ima­gine a Second Life in a fully imaged, geot­agged, Microsoft PhotoSynth’d world. With the data out there in the cloud, we can live out our life in the vir­tu­al­ized clouds.
A most pleas­ant reason is to revisit your travels. Re-orienting your­self, remem­ber­ing the streets of Lon­don without the 28+ hour flight. Fun. Reliv­ing the past, vir­tu­ally. The future will be more out there and immersive.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickhodge/ is a col­lec­tion of my favour­ite images pos­ted for the world to see. Exper­i­ment­ing with a vari­ety of what people call Web 2.0 tools. Another is 37signals Base­camp for one of Liam’s school projects.