Mappr

Tuesday, Dec. 21 2004 | Author: Nicole

Mappr is a new website (not from Ludicorp) that maps photos from Flickr geographically.

Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found online, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures.

Mappr takes advantage of the cornucopia of descriptive information provided by Flickr’s users to organize their photos.

From looking through it briefly, it doesn’t seem to be very accurate. Just because a photo has the world ‘circle’ in its title does not mean it maps to Circle, Montana. I’m also guessing that a picture of a palm tree is not from Beach, North Dakota.

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2 Responses for "Mappr"

minghong

December 21st, 2004 at 2:45 am
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US only?!
Eric Rodenbeck

December 21st, 2004 at 2:05 pm
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yes, US only - for now. one thing at a time :)

we’re thinking that it’s better to get people used to the idea that their photos can be easily geotagged than to wait for GPS encoding to really arrive. we take a fairly liberal approach to including photos - so this is why if you tag your photos with “beach,” it’ll sometimes show up in Beach, North Dakota.

the issue isn’t so much the geo-encoding - that part’s fairly easy. the real thing, we think, is finding a way for people to start exploring in this space, with photos that they already have online - before they have the technology.