Cheers Mike.

Cheers Mike.

Cheers Mike.

But the cool thing is where it guesses based on CellID. It will automatically suggest tags based on CellID before you upload the image. So if you are on the banks of the Thames at Waterloo and take a snap, chances are ZoneTag will suggest tags like 'London Eye' or 'Houses of Parliament' or 'Dali Elephant'.

The flipside of this is that in Tagmaps, you zoom in on a spot and can see what it was others tagged, in a tag-cloud way. So without ever being there you can see what is popular/attractive in an area.

So if you had never been oop noorth or heard of Mr Gormley, you could browse over to here and check the place out.

This has built up over the life of Flickr, and now surely must be a massively useful resource. Yahoo haven't really done anything with it…yet….

Here's what ZoneTag saves into the EXIF data:

zonetag [x]
cameraphone [x]
London [x]
England [x]
zip:SW11 2 [x]
United Kingdom [x]
geotagged [x]
celltagged [x]

machine tags (7)
geo:city=London [x]
geo:state=England [x]
geo:zip=SW11 2 [x]
geo:country=United Kingdom [x]
geo:lat=51.466283 [x]
geo:lon=-0.169723 [x]
cell:cgi=234-20-1233-134295388 [x]

And here's what ShoZu saves:

geotagged [x]
ShoZu [x]

machine tags (2)
geo:lon=-0.47848 [x]
geo:lat=51.35104 [x]

Zonetag uses MORE than just GPS, is that what you're saying?

Zonetag puts the info into the 'Machine Tags', which are a pseudo-standard subset of the EXIF data AFAIK (AKA 'Triple tags')

/m

ShoZu doesn't. Shozu embeds into the 'machine tags'.

Flickr currently only acknowledges the latter.

Embeds into the EXIF data. I'm not sure if that also counts for 'guess my location' which uses CellID (Flickr/Yahoo! have a massive CellID db from years of Zonetag users – see http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/ for an example of the usefulness of this).

In fact it should be a policy enforced by a team of heavies with carte blanche to re-educate anyone who needs it with a stick.

TBH – The only reason I jumped to ShoZu from SOv3 was because the latter really does not get on with my VF connection. It never has.

1) ShoZu don't allow me to mark posts either Private or Public before uploading. Big issue for a dad.
2) ShoZu don't try to guess or allow manual location entry – you gotta have the GPS running. Hopeless IMHO, what with all this CellID & WiFi love flowing around.

Geotagged me a wee storm with ZoneTag this arvo. No dice with ShoZu.

AND, ShoZu doesn't let me mark images/vids I DON'T want to upload as 'not new', so I always have to go through and manually select them instead of just uploading all. Pushr on the iPhone gets this right. I mean, they are really making this hard…

GeoTags at 20 paces, sir?

Question for me is “Do I “need” an 8mp camera”

I have an N95 and its 5mp does me fine, so at the moment its a no.

Unless I get unlimited data plan this would just mean more cost as I'm not always in range of wifi..

Mark

n.b. copyright me, that one.

n.n.b got my ZoneTag / Fire Eagle Mojo working now. Watch this Geotagged space….

I'd be more impressed with 3MP and a decent flash in a slim form factor if it could match, say, the N82's quality (which is a bit of a fat-boy).

“We don't care about Megapixels It's all about quality and most importantly, usability. Don't spam us with your PR, hyping your new release as 'better' or 'best' simply because you crammed a few more pixels into an already tiny image sensor. As any fule kno, <Megapixels don't matter. Tell us how much faster your new product is at starting up, taking a second image, how much better it works in low light, or with moving subjects, or how quickly it can recharge the flash. Show us the money, not Megapixels”

<sob>

<prays to the mobile camera gods>

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