Geotagging and Panoramio

Today I have explored the use of geotagging photographs, I used some that I had taken on a bike ride I did with Edward to West Bridgford. During the ride I used my Magellan Explorist 100 GPS to make placemarks of where I took the photographs. I thought I would explore the Yuan CC Firefox extension tool to map my photos after loading into Flickr. Basically this extension adds a GMap button to the photo button header in Flickr. Clicking on this opens up a mapping window. But I struggled to accurately map the photos using the Lat Lon data I had. It didn’t seem to want to save my work or placemark information and clicking and dragging the map was inaccurate.

So I moved onto Panoramio, on this site you upload a photograph and then map it. There are no options to add Lat Lon data, all you do is use Google maps window to locate where you took the photo. You mark it by dragging a placemark icon. This was really easy and quick and simple to do. Once complete the photos appear via Google Earth using the Panoramio network link kml. I would like to develop this into an activity for History and Geography – the former could be work on our local history unit and the latter something as simple as matching the photographs of a river system to the map.