Using+your+Mobile+Phone+and+Geotagging

=Using your Mobile Phone and Geotagging=

cc licensed flickr photo by sridgway: http://flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/4517264338/

Mobile Phone Usage
Most contemporary mobile phones can take photographs which can be easily uploaded to your flickr account using standard email or via a specialised phone application. Phones with wap or 3g can also be used to search, browse, read and post comments on photos.

Email
Each registered account on flickr has it's own private email upload address to email photos to your account.

You can find your unique email adulteress on your profile page (click on your user name) then select the Emails &amp; Notifications tab.

Here you will find 3 pre set email addresses


 * 1) **Flickr upload email** (This is the email address to upload an image from your phone using email)
 * 2) **Blog upload email** (This is the email address to send and image to flickr and your designated blog)
 * 3) **Flickr2Twitter upload** (This is the email address to send and image to flickr and make a tweet in twitter)

Descriptions and Tags

You can use the subject line to give your photo or video a title and the body to add a description. In the case of twitter the subject line becomes the tweet text and a url is posted which links to the uploaded image in flickr.

Google My Maps
Google My Maps is google maps service which allows google users the ability to create a custom map with numerous markers which can contain any embedded content such as flickr images/video.

Geotagged images can be located on a My Map and displayed where they were taken. Google My Maps can be embedded in any application which allows third party embeds such as wikis, blogs etc.

For example the following google map was created using images upload from an iphone to flickr and then addded to a google My Map.

In your flickr preferences you can assign pre set tags which will be assigned to all emailed photos.

Smart Phones
Using flickr with an Smartphone eg. iphone3gs based web browser has been optimised via a dedicated url http://m.flickr.com

There are also dedicated applications for a number of popular smartphones including the iphone, blackberry, Nokia Nseries and the milti phone app from Shoz.

For the iphone and android based phones there are many apps which support flickr as a thirrd party service to upload the final results, eg. photo/video editing &amp; enhancing apps.

for more information on setting up your phone see the dedicated http://mobile.yahoo.com/flickr Yahoo mobile for flickr site

Geotagging
Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs or video. The meta data embedded in the media at the time of creation usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though they can also include altitude, bearing, distance, accuracy data, and place names. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging Wikipedia Entry

Many contemporary smartphones such as the iphone3gs are gps enabled and will store the location the photo was taken and when uploaded to flickr will enable a link to a map showing the location the shot was taken.

For example this photo was taken at the Canberra, Bus depot markets and uploaded insitu to flickr using an iphone3gs app

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/4510214756/



In the image information flickr displays where the photo was taken and a link to a Yahoo map



Google My Maps
Google My Maps is google maps service which allows google users the ability to create a custom map with numerous markers which can contain any embedded content such as flickr images/video.

Geotagged images can be located on a My Map and displayed where they were taken. Google My Maps can be embedded in any application which allows third party embeds such as wikis, blogs etc.

For example the following google map was created using images upload from an iphone to flickr and then addded to a google My Map.

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