Flickr
announced that have added Geotagging to Flickr photos. Now Flickr photos can be tagged to indicate where individual photographs were taken. Flickr is offering a
screencast that helps people learn how to geotag photos and another
helper screencast to teach people how to search for geotagged photographs. You can see Flickr's geotagged photos
here on Flickr's map which Download Squad
says is powered by the Yahoo Maps API.
Wikipedia
defines Geotagging as "the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images." The metadata can include latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude and names of places.
Geotagging is a new feature for Flickr but it isn't a brand new tool. Smugmug
blogs that they starting offering
geotagging support over a year ago.
Zooomr is another photo sharing service offering geotagging. Services like
Frappr allow users to share their location with others. Robert Scoble
points to a geotagging mashup tool called
BlockRocker. Some other popular geotagging tools can be found
here on del.icio.us.
