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  • Dave 12:10 pm on January 28, 2010 Permalink
    Tags: flickr, , photosharing, publicenergy, smugmug,   

    Flickr stagnation and withdrawal 

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    The screen shot above is what one of my photographs looks like on Flickr when viewed in a maximised browser on a 24” monitor. Five years ago, monitors were generally smaller and the Flickr pages looked quite nicely designed and the images seemed to be a reasonable size. As luck would have it, I found an old photo that contains Flickr running on a 17” monitor. This photo was taken in 2005 which was the year I started using the site. 5 years later, the photo pages are virtually unchanged.

    If I compare the Flickr screen shot at the top with what the same image looks like on SmugMug – again on a 24” browser, maximised, much more is made of the available space.

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    Also, clicking on the main image, does a ‘lights-out’ enlargement to make it fill as much as the browser window as possible and fading out the background.

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    It’s not just the layout of the pages on Flickr that are well overdue for an overhaul – here’s a list of other irritations:

    • The speed of the site. It can be painfully slow sometimes, it sucks the joy out of browsing photos because of how long it takes to flick between pages and images.
    • The UK satellite maps are dreadful. When Flickr first introduced geotagging, the Yahoo maps they chose to use had really rough looking barely detailed maps in most of the areas I was interested in. Years later they are still like that – virtually unusable.
    • The attitude of Flickr towards their customers. It’s hard to know if this is all Yahoo these days or what – but there are countless tales of people having their accounts marked unsafe, or even deleted without any kind of discussion or right of appeal.
    • The popularity of the site has diluted the community aspect – This might be a bit of “this club was better before it was popular” type of thing – BUT – there is a lot to be said for smaller and well managed compared to catering for the millions. The help forums and a lot of the groups are depressing to read these days.
    • Unable to retrieve your complete data – It’s possible using third party tools to re-download your photos should you wish, but, it’s much harder to download your photos and also the information that was added after it was uploaded to Flickr. For instance, extra tags, possible extra geo-data, people in the photo and the comments. It really ought to be possible to download an offline archive of your photos with this extra data.

    So, for various reasons I have a few years left of paid Flickr account use. I’m gradually sorting through my photos that were uploaded to Flickr and putting them online at http://publicenergy.co.uk using SmugMug to make it work.

    My plan is to wind down what gets posted to Flickr and use publicenergy.co.uk as my main online photo storage site. notsowildlife.com will continue to serve as my animal photo specific site.

    I have no intention of actually deleting my Flickr account – although I’ll review that decision when my pro account expires in a few years time. For the time being I still need to keep tabs on friends uploading photos there, and it might be inconvenient for the small group of other Flickr users I really care about to keep tabs on my photos.

    For me, my favourite part of this whole photography hobby is actually going out and taking the photos – it is nice when other people see them and like them of course. The not so wild animal thing has had lots of nice feedback from people. Comments left on photos are one thing, but it’s the odd comment from people who have really reacted that I’ve enjoyed the most. People telling me that they’ve had to put one of my cow photos up in their new born daughter’s nursery for example. Somebody telling me their student produced a painting based on one of my cow photos. Being asked how close I get to ducks! or how I clean chewed up grass spat by llamas from my camera! These are enjoyable reactions I won’t forget.

    Flickr has been good socially too – I know quite a lot of good people as a result of Flickr meetups – I think that these events peaked a few years ago too – the love for Flickr is vanishing – so I’m glad I was around at the best time and still have a lot of friendships as a result.

    We’ll see how it all goes!

     

    • Nick 12:28 pm on January 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I feel your pain and recently wrote about issues I had with Flickr; finishing with a plea for them to either sell the service or shove some money at it and actually do something.

      Its a really hard call as the community aspects (when they work) are good, but the actual photo sharing is abismal at best. The service has barely changed since 2004 when it launched apart from adding features that help them make money. Such a basic site with little to no investment (and a small and unresponsive support team) must be a huge money cow for Yahoo. Which is sadly, probably why they can’t be bothered changing anything.

      Off to have a look at Smugmug now!

      • Dave Wild 12:38 pm on January 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        SmugMug definitely doesn’t have a community to match Flickr by a very long way. It does however provide a fairly modern photo browsing web site that you can get working on your own domain name. It seemed the best option for me – less hassle than actually hosting and looking after something.

        • Nick 1:24 pm on January 28, 2010 Permalink

          Perhaps a business opportunity to set up some competition for some photography minded IT geeks (or IT minded photography geeks)!?

    • Michael Randall 8:29 pm on January 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Very nicely put, Dave. I’ve been somewhat unhappy with Flickr’s display for a while now, and stories of people’s accounts being deleted without warning or recourse make me nervous. The one thing that had always put me off SmugMug was that there didn’t seem to be a way to show your most recent photos – but your site has that.

      Knowing that was possible was enough to get me to try it out – I’m now trialling it, and may switch to it for most of my photos too.

      For the moment, at least, it’s at http://www.pigpog.co.uk – I may try linking it neatly in to PigPog next week.

      • Dave Wild 8:52 pm on January 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Looking at the SmugMug blog, they seem to have a steady rate of improvements – especially recently. I think any extra features now will be a bonus – I’m enjoying the site’s speed and being able to see the photos larger by default. Good photos look much better larger – looking at a lot of my old ones though, making them larger means you can see how rough they are – the 500 pixel size on Flickr brushed a lot of problems under the carpet out of view! :)

        Have fun with it during your trial. I’m still finding things out and there seems to be lots of info about customizing the pages in their forums that I’ve not really looked at yet – I’m going to be concerned with sorting out all of the old images I want to move there that are currently very disorganised – I’m trying to avoid a “2000 random photos taken during the last 10 years” gallery!

    • Austen 4:27 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hey there Dave.
      Like yourself i have started trialling other sites, but as of yet havent settled on one. For me the reasons for looking around are different to some of yours, but i too realise that Flickr is past its sell by date, and soon to be passed its use by date. :-)

      I was never a big browser of others photos but yours were ones that always put a smile on my face and im sure they will continue to do just that.

      And it has been great meeting you a few times (because of Flickr) and of course lots of other people. Best of luck with your plans to sort your photos out properley. It sounds too much like real hard work for me. :-)

      • Dave Wild 4:43 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Well, I’m going to continue to keep tabs on Flickr and the contacts and friends there so I still see their photos, meet up and all of that kind of stuff.

        As for difficulty in moving, it was fairly easy – I found a Firefox add-on called Smugglr which copied all of my sets in to galleries on the new site – I do have a big pile of photos I never organised that I need to go through, but I can do that gradually – there’s no real rush! Deciding to do it was probably more difficult than actually doing it.

        • Milo42 5:58 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink

          Interesting post I had not given much consideration to flickr in that respect guess I’m always to busy to look in depth at it. You raise some good points. I have never seen smug mug so I will check it out in more depth when I can find time.
          The great news is that it has an RSS feed so I have hooked up the RSS feed of your pictures to my google reader and I’m sorted I will see the images you post.

        • Dave Wild 6:26 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink

          I think there are plenty of alternatives, but looking at the SmugMug blog, they seemed to have a bit of drive to make their product better and my limited experience of their forums and support looks good too.

          I already track the ‘friends’ Flickr RSS feed – which is basically Flickr contacts that I really care about rather than the hundreds I added years ago out of politeness! – I think I’m going to go through it and subscribe to the individuals though because I think things fall through the cracks and it’ll be good for me to get in to the habit of keeping track of photos where ever they are.

    • Milo42 9:27 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Yes I had come to realise I was missing new pics relying on the flickr email and have slowly been adding RSS feeds. RSS seems to be a better way to go. It will be interesting to see how you get on with SmugMug

    • John 11:33 pm on February 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Good luck on your move away. I have started using Flickr and left numerous times. I have an account now but only to share photos with very specific people and participate in a group I started years ago. Otherwise Flickr does not appeal to me at all.

    • Primed Minister 12:37 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Dave,

      Sorry to hear you’re withdrawing from Flickr as I enjoy looking at your photostream, however I can relate. I agree that an overhaul is overdue. As websites go Flickr is quite a basic site now and at times it is slow, it could be a lot slicker all round really. A ‘light box’ feature for instance where the image ‘expands’ large above the web page would be a good one. How hard would that be to implement? Surely Yahoo have the time and resources? The geotagging, I agree with you, I gave up geotagging my images a while back as the maps simply aren’t detailed enough to pinpoint an exact location. Also grey seems to complement images better, it looks more neutral, yet we still view our images on Flickr against stark white by default.

      One of the things I enjoy about Flickr though, like everyone else, is reading people’s comments but what I regard as spamming, i.e . the addition of graphics and icons or replacement of words for meaningless icons is quite irritating. On some photostreams I don’t bother to leave a comment at all because of all the graphics and award icons you have to sift through to get to the actual ‘dialogue’. It’s a shame there hasn’t been some kind of filtering setup to automatically ban the graphics from appearing or a toggle on/off feature to make it optional.

      For all its flaws I’ll carry on using Flickr until I’m convinced of switching to a suitable alternative. SmugMug sounds interesting although I haven’t got the time to work on my own website. Credit to you for looking into other alternatives.

      Cheers, Paul.

    • premiump 12:34 pm on February 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Yep, all good reasons Dave, and control of your own content is always something you have been really good at. As it goes, I let my Pro account lapse before Christmas, intentionally removing over 500 photo’s to keep it within the free “viewable” limit.

      I can’t say I have missed it.

    • Freester 7:47 am on February 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Dave,

      Sorry to read this. Yet I understand completely.

      I just wanted to say without you I wouldn’t have found Flickr, and wouldn’t have found the joys of phototgraphy. During this time I have gone from an MTB’r taking the occasional snap to someone who is quite proud of his photography. It has taken time and effort but I wouldn’t have embarked on this journey if I hadn’t heard of Flickr via you.

      I completely understand your reasons.

      I am getting a bit baffled by the amount of utter crud on Flickr that get’s bombarded with backslapping ‘great shot’ comments, awful awards and zero constructive crit.

      You’ll be missed.

      Mark (aka Freester)

      • Dave Wild 10:30 am on February 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Well, not using Flickr is one thing, giving up on taking and sharing photos another, and I have no intention of giving up those activities :)

    • Lazlo Woodbine 8:58 pm on February 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Sorry to see that you’ve more or less left Flickr – thought I hadn’t spotted anything new from you for a while. IMO Flickr is changing / has changed for the worse… but I’m as guilty as anyone for doing the quick and easy ‘great shot’ comment (although I have grown out of the whole award and invite stuff…).

      Don’t know enough about the technical side of things but you’re right, when you think about it, I’ve been on there for 3 years and it hasn’t changed a bit. Oh well, it costs me nothing to be a ‘pro’ so I’ll stick with it (the idiots stopped charging me because I used to be with BTInternet about 8 years ago!).

      Will now bookmark your new sites to keep up to date with your rather wonderful animal and landscape shots.

      Cheers

      Steve

  • Dave 11:49 pm on March 15, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: blogging, creativecommons, flickr, licence   

    Photo licensing 

     

    Recently, I’ve been involved in a situation where a photo was used without permission – this was possibly due to a misunderstanding of how the licence works. During the discussions that followed, with friends, and on Flickr, a few things came to light that I wasn’t that clear about either.

    The licence on my Flickr photos is a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence.

    This means you can:

    • Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
    • Remix – to adapt the work

    Under the following conditions:

    • Attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)
    • Noncommercial – You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

    The licence goes to to say:

    • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
    • Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

    For me, I chose this licence because it meant that non-commercial use was permitted as long as it was attributed to me. I don’t mind my photos being used free of charge for non-commercial things at all. In fact, lots of good things have come out of this.

    Even though the licence says ‘non-commercial’ – it does go on to state that any of the conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. This does happen – I’m sometimes approached by commercial entities who wish to use photos and because they’re commercial I expect them to pay for it.

    My recent problem was with a commercial entity using my photo without the proper permission. I’m hoping this will be resolved quickly.

    Aside from that though, based on these licences, I noticed other problems. A friend of mine who used the same licence had some of his photos used on a blog – but they were just embedded and there was no attribution to say who created the photo. The author thought they were doing the right thing because the photo linked to the original Flickr page when you clicked on it, but if you were just reading the page, you’d see a photo that was taken by somebody else, and it appears no credit was given. This is even worse if there’s a copyright statement at the bottom of the page, because you’re effectively claiming other people’s copyrighted work as your own!

    Linking back to the original photo is better than nothing, but it’s far from the correct thing to do. Embedded photos should have a line of text below them attributing the owner – and if the licence is followed fully, it should also point out under which licence it is being used.

    Flickr doesn’t make this easy though. Their default ‘Blog This’ templates do include the Flickr user name as text below the photo, but this is easily edited out. It’s not possible to include the licence in the template either. I have found a discussion in the Flickr Ideas group where Flickr staff mentioned they were working on making this better, which is good.

    In the mean time, if you want to embed photos correctly, I’ve found this tool:

    http://www.imagecodr.org/

    It generates embed code from Flickr pages, but follows the terms of the licence of that photo – the results are like the image at the top of this post.

     

    • Brendadada 7:05 pm on March 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      NIghtmare. Creative Commons just isn’t understood. In the end I decided to just go fully © and people can ask.

      Love your new template.

      • Dave Wild 7:18 pm on March 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Cheers. This is the link to the FlickrCentral discussion about this particular event: http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157615108077695/

        It appears that Wickes went on a trolley dash around Flickr for their photos!

        They had promised to get in touch with me today regarding payment, but that hasn’t happened yet – I would have thought as a damage limitation measure, the least they could do would be to keep their promise about that.

  • Dave 9:37 pm on March 11, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: , flickr, getty, gettyimages   

    Flickr Collection on Getty Images 

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    The Flickr Collection launched on Getty Images today. There are a selection of my images in there – mostly featuring cows it has to be said. There are currently 6 images, but I have a further 15 or so to review and prepare.

    It’ll be interesting to see how this goes. It is good to know that people want images of cows. There’s no knowing what people want photos of though – so far this month I’ve been approached for photos of cows, a UFO and a rock that looks like somebody’s bottom.

     

  • Dave 9:58 pm on March 1, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: flickr, ,   

    Photocamp Leeds 2009 

    Woman riding a donkey

    I thoroughly enjoyed Photocamp Leeds 2008 last September. The first one was a huge success and the second one seemed better with more constant buzz as I wandered around and spoke to people. As a result of various sessions and conversations I’ve found so much stuff, my head is spinning!

    Here is a short list of some of the things that really had an impact on me:

    • Peer Lawther from the National Media Museum in Bradford did a session about their collaboration with Flickr on the Flickr Commons project. There’s an article in the British Journal of Photography about this:National Media Museum praises Flickr collaboration

      The photo above is taken from the National Media Museum’s collection in Flickr Commons. It was also on one of Peer’s Moo cards that I didn’t pick entirely at random if I’m honest!

    • The first session I attended in the morning was about travel photography. This was split in to two sections which were interesting in different ways. The first half was presented by Nick – this contained a lot of useful advice that only becomes obvious after you’ve been through the process and experienced or avoided the pitfalls. Nick has posted his slides here. Also check out his galleries.
      In the second half of the same session, Ade Freeman talked us through some of his travel photographs. Lots of these were truly beautiful. As a result of seeing these, I tracked down his book and purchased a copy.
    • In the afternoon, I went to a session presented by John Dolan about his experiences doing a 365 set of self portraits. This kind of thing gets attempted by many people, but however you look at it, John has gone the extra mile and then some. I’ll be very surprised if at the end of the year he doesn’t want to take a year off to become a hermit and get away from cameras. The good thing from our point of view is that he’s produced a fascinating set of images that is still growing – and well worth a good browse:John FotoHouse – 365 Days

    I went to other sessions and met and talked to lots of people and could go on typing here for a long time. This event was so very enjoyable. The good news seems to be that events like this should be happening in more and more places as time goes by. The UK Photocamps web site doesn’t give much away at the moment, but it’ll be worth keeping an eye on.

    Finally, have a look through some of the photos taken at the event – there are more and more appearing all of the time: Photocamp Leeds 2009 photos on Flickr.

     

    • Nick 10:50 pm on March 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Good to hear you enjoyed Ade’s and my presentation. I was nervous enough about presenting without discovering we were going first! But its always good to get positive feedback.

      I think it must be your turn next time! How about “Horns and Hooves – Photographing Animals”?

      My own presentation aside, I didn’t manage to attend the previous one so this was my first photocamp experience. As you mention there was so much going on it did leave me a little overwhelmed at times. My main problem is throughout the day there were always multiple presentation going on at the same time that I wanted to see. Choosing which to attend was the hard part.

    • John Dolan (FotoHouse) 11:20 pm on March 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the kind comments Dave. I really enjoyed the day too and having past the half way mark with the 365 I see some light at the end of a very long tunnel!
      The main thing about the day, as you say, was the general buzz.
      Looking forward to more photo networking later in the year!

  • Dave 7:37 am on February 12, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: flickr   

    Flickr’s 5th Birthday – a look back 

    A cow [15/365]

    This article started as a post in the Nottingham Flickr Group so some of the references are based on reading it there…

    It’s Flickr’s fifth birthday today, so I thought it might be nice to start a thread here where we can post some of our memories about using it and perhaps shed a little light on ourselves.

    My first photo was uploaded on March 21st 2005. I remember signing up for Flickr at the end of the previous year and having a play, but not really understanding why it was worth using compared to storing photos in my own gallery on my own web server. I kept going back to look at it though, because around that time there was a lot of interest on the Internet in it and I thought I’m probably missing something – I definitely had the feeling that there was more to this than met the eye – I just wasn’t sure what!

    After I started exchanging comments with people and getting comments back, it started to make more sense. It started to become a lot more fun when these comments ventured off in to just having a laugh with people and sharing enough of these things to start building up mental pictures of these people. So, I was hooked and have been ever since.

    That first photo is not one I particularly like now, but I don’t delete photos from Flickr. My photos are mainly personal mementos – but I do try and make some of them worthwhile too – I’m not precious about my stream of photos though, so there is a big quality mix and no real focus – apart from an obsession with animals that has lasted a fair while now!

    Because of Flickr, I think photography became more than just photography for me – the Flickr part of the equation is a major factor in why I keep doing it. Since 2005, I’ve met loads of people because of Flickr and become friends with quite a few of them (including one "special" one hehe).

    The only down side for me these days is that there is so much stuff I want to look at I just can’t seem to find the time, so I end up only really monitoring a small subset of contacts photos, and browse the others only when I get chance. I’m sure there are loads of great photos that have completely passed me by. Contacts aside, there are millions of extra photos uploaded to Flickr every day, so it’s entirely possible there is a world of photos out there that are right up my alley that I’ll never see.

    So, some links to share. It think one favourite photo from my stream and links to a few other people’s streams that are people that I’ve enjoyed but other people might not have discovered: One of my favourite photos:

    Let me see let me see [69/365]

    I’ve posted nearly 4000 photos, so I can’t really pick a favourite, but it just had to be an animal shot where the animal looked like they were enjoying it!

    Some links to other people’s streams that I think have a consistent high standard and I really enjoy – some of these are friends, but that is a coincidence – I have friends who take lousy photos too! ;) I’m not explaining why I like the photos from these people, have a browse and make your own minds up. One thing that some of them share is more patience and technical ability than I have – I’m quite slapdash generally and I think I can get things that are pleasing compositionally but a bit of a mess on the technical side. Some of these people don’t have that problem…

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbradbury

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dazb/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/primed_minister/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoimage/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpdehaan/

    Big Huge Labs have a tool to generate a page for you which shows off some of your most interesting photos as well as a tag cloud and other stuff – it might be handy to post your own link in your reply so that we can go exploring as well – you can generate the link button here: bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php

    View my photos at bighugelabs.com

     

  • Dave 5:41 pm on January 31, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: , cooliris, firefox, flickr, images, slideshow   

    Cooliris 

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    If you have Cooliris installed, then you should be able to use it to browse the photos on here now. It is quite a nice way to browse the photos at a larger size.

     

  • Dave 7:56 am on November 19, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: , flickr, , ,   

    Alport Castles with Nottingham Flickr Group 

    Wet

    On Saturday I went for a walk from Fairholmes near Ladybower Reservoir to Alport Castles with some members of the Nottingham Flickr Group. It was pretty wet in the morning – this photo was taken just before lunch when we reached Alport Castles and despite my efforts to keep the lens free of water, I was losing the battle, so this is the result – big blurred spots where the water droplets landed.

    On the plus side, it more accurately reflects the conditions!

    The day was much harder work for me than normal due to the fact that I had forgotten my walking boots. The footwear I wear most of the rest of the time would have to do – they were classed as walking shoes – and while they are very comfortable for day to day use, the level of grip is tiny compared to good walking boots. As a consequence, the section of the walk that descended down the wet grass from Alport Castles to the valley bellow required a lot more effort and concentration. I’m determined never to forget them again!

    More photos from me and the rest of the group here.

     

  • Dave 12:04 pm on October 21, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: flickr, , , , ,   

    Nottingham Flickr Group Magpie Mine & Lathkill Dale Walk 

    On Saturday I went for a walk with several members of the Nottingham Flickr Group in the Peak District from Over Haddon to Magpie Mine, Monyash and Lathkill Dale.

    I was very much enjoying the walk and the chat and didn’t actually take many photos at all. Luckily, the other 9 people took plenty of nice ones. There were a lot more cows than there had been when I’d done this route before – and other members of the group took some great pictures of them – particularly Jon’s photo which comes up first in this slideshow of event photos ordred with the most interesting photos first.

    You can browse the photos if you don’t like slideshows: Tagged photos from the walk on Flickr.

     

  • Dave 2:35 pm on July 27, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: flickr, , map   

    The sad state of Flickr maps 

    One of the things I enjoy is the mixture of photographs and mapping. Exploring a map and viewing photos is really enjoyable when it’s done right. My first exposure to this kind of thing was when Zooomr had it as a feature and I really longed for Flickr to have that feature too. After quite some time, maps and geotagging appeared on Flickr and that was great. Towards the end of last year though, the Flickr Map pages received an update which crippled their usefulness. At the time, I thought that maybe it was just teething problems of a new version. However, now, around 9 months later, they’re still as broken and useless as they were last November.

    The Flickr Map above: I’ve pointed it towards an area of the Peak District where I know I have a lot of photos. I can’t get it to display all of my photos from there though – just the recent or interesting ones. They also just appear as pink dots on the map. In order to find out what’s behind a pink dot, I have to click on it and one of the photos on the bar at the bottom will display a larger version. It’s just a slow and horrible way of browsing. What’s wrong with popping up thumbnails as you move the mouse over those dots? And displaying the rest of the photos?

    The secondary problem of course is the state of the map itself. Yahoo maps have lagged behind Google Maps for as long as I can remember. Some of the city maps look nicer, but as for satelite photos of most of my favourite walking locations go, they just look like a mess which is next to useless. Compare the image above with the one below, showing the same area but zoomed in further (but not as far as it possible).

    loc.alize.us is a third party web site that plugs in to Flickr to display photos on maps. This seems to work in the way you’d hope – browse around the map and photos that were taken in that area are marked on the map with markers. Mouse over those markers for a little thumbnail version of it to appear. It’s just very quick and easy. The quality of the maps is a huge bonus too of course.

    I do hope that Flickr haven’t decided that the maps are a niche that few people have interest in – I’d love to see it developed and fixed so that I don’t have to rely on other web sites to be able to browse my photos on a map. Flickr have direct access to all of the data, which should enable them to do a proper job.

     

    • Primed Minister 4:54 pm on August 13, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Couldn’t agree more with the points you’ve raised. I have the localize bookmarklet on my web browser and it seems to work pretty well. Finding my own photos on maps seems to be quite a rare thing. The “See where this picture was taken” link that it adds to your photo though on Flickr I think is very useful. I wish more people would use loc.alize…

  • Dave 10:35 am on April 20, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: flickr, ,   

    Big UK Flickr Meet #3 – Nottingham 

    Flickr Meet #3 – Nottingham, originally uploaded by CraigMarston.

    This event turned out very well. The weather looked like it would rain, but it just remained overcast. Everyone I spoke to during the day said they were really enjoying themselves, and indeed, there were a large number of poeple left when we arrived at the final pub around 5:30pm.

    We met at 10AM, and went straight in to the Council House on the Old Market Square in Nottingham. That was fascinating. I had no idea that place was so extensive. 58 people signed in to look around which gives us some idea of final numbers for the event – some people turned up later as well.

    We had a rather long lunchtime break in the Pitcher & Piano pub which used to be a church and after everyone going off exploring in little groups met up at the Castle to do some group shots and have a look around.

    From the Castle, we had a ride on an old Routemaster bus around the city and then on to another pub. That bus ride was fun with everyone still in high sprits.

    It just goes to show that despite not being warm and sunny, these things can be great days out.

    There are already a few hundred photos on Flickr from the event and I expect there to be hundreds more. All of them can be seen here.

     

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