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Photos and Geotagging

Sep 21, 2008
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Now its time to talk serious about geotagging! (And I'm sorry I haven't been updating for a while...)

For me as an user of my N95 to the max, as soon as I learnt about the possibility to use the GPS on my N95 to geotag I started doing it. The possibilities using geotagging is of course endless but for the average user it's a very useful tool to know where you took a specific photo. I mean how many times haven't we taken photos and then a year or more after that wondered where the heck was this now. GPS and geo tagging is the tool for you, and if you have an GPS enabled phone, but think the quality of the photos aren't up with your standard, well I suggest you take a photo with both your camera and your phone (that has got a software on it to geotag the photos!). That way you can be sure where you took the photos.

Of course there are GPS enabled cameras too, but I guess they're more for professional use and to expensive for the average user.

Lets look at Photo sites now, how they handle this information.

Flickr: Is run by Yahoo, and they have their own software for S60 devices which both deploys GPS coordinates and cell info. Gives also suggestions for tags like if your in a city, it gives you the postal code (if possible) and so on. Flickr is a really good photos site and I use it for all my newer photos nowadays. The cost for a pro account is $24.95 and it's well spent money as I see it.

Share on OVI: Is Nokia's sharing site. OVI is a really good, free and unlimited service that allows you to upload all sorts of media files. Not only photos, sound files, pdf etc works fine. For me I use it to store all my digital media files. Their use of geotagging is excellent and especially when you combine it with the Locaiontagger its outstanding.

LOCR: Is the only really geotag page, they have both software for your phone and a software you can download to your computer to use both for geotagging afterwards and to look at the photos on maps. Its also used (of course) to send your photos to their webpage. But they have a linit for the free user and its only 100Mb a month, wich means about 100 photos. And you know how it is, on vacation you take loads more photos. But I love their interface, looks really nice and the way they display the geotag information is also great. The cost for an pro acconut is €20.

Picasa: This is a part of Google services, and much to my surprise they dont read the geotag information!

Places: This is part of MS hotmail services, where you can blog, post photos etc.

Photobucket: As far as I can see they they don't check your geotags up, they get all the other one's alright. Nice interface and possibilities to edit online too.

Shutterfly: Cool photosite that alowws you to share and print in different ways. Nothing exciting and they dont care about geo tagging.

SmugMug: Looks like a good site, however I didn't sign up as they charge you for using it after 14 days, but they use geotags.

SnapFish: Snapfish is run by HP, and is more of an upload and get prints site what I can see. No actual use of geotagging here.

Final conclusions and thoughts.

For most users I would suggest setting up an OVI account as it's one of the best AND free services. And as susual it always comes down to what you're looking for in the services your going to use. But if you're in for using geotagging my suggestions are: Set up an OVI and one Flickr account and your covered!

And as a final remark I have to say that shozu has got all the important pages covered to do your uploads to. And they have an excellent software for your phone to use too!

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Share on OVI, Excellent online service for sharing your photos, videos etc

Apr 4, 2008
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All of you know that there is many online services to save photos and video's. Flickr, YouTube, Vox etc. is well know.
But Nokia has through TWANGO possibility to offer the most complete service that I have seen so far.
TWANGO is included in Nokia's OVI concept that is a portal towards Nokia's online services.
I can only establish following:

Twango steadies in principle all photo, video and sound formats. Furthermore, one can save documents in other formats there also. TWANGO gives support to over 100 different file types.
You get unlimited space for your documents
Maximum file size is whopping 100 Mb
You can invitefriends to look at your files without the need to sign up.
You can on a simple way load up your pictures from your camera mobile but if you do not have such a mobile, you can you also in a simple way publish your pictures or other files from any computer.

I use the service now to store all my digital files and at present it's more than 5 Gb and there wasn't any problems to upload them. An advice only, divide up your uploads in smaller rounds then it is easier that structure them.

Go to TWANGO you also and create yourself an account, one more excellent service you can't find!