While many of you out there are experiencing multi-orgasmic bliss over the geotagging capabilities that flickr and Yahoo! have introduced, I’ve got to say I’m a little less than whelmed…
Why? Not because it isn’t an awesome idea. ‘Cos, demonstrably, it’s an AWESOME idea. No, I’m unhappy because Yahoo! data for Australia is so crappy. The images – both satellite and map – run out at the 1 mile/1 km resolution (the map scale is representative of a single mile/kilometer). This is much worse than the resolution offered on Google Local (that’s my place right in the middle with the orange roof), where I can get 200ft resolution on a map or hybrid, with full street names, and 100ft resolution on a satellite-only image.
To my mind, geotagging is about high-granularity. The ability to tag something, potentially within a couple of meters. Unfortunately, I can’t do that with flickr geotagging. I really hope Yahoo! do everything they can to get much higher resolution data for their under-serviced areas. And that they do it soon.
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I understand what your saying and your points are true about Australia’s data (there is no contest between Yahoo and Google) but I would say that the feature is great and the data is underwhelming.
mOLLY
mOLLY, I’ll run with that. It’s not the service, it’s the crap data that’s cruelling it for us Aussies (and likely a heap of others, too).
For those who are from areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, like Australia, Panoramio can be an alternative.
In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You can also watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.
Eduardo