Going Places on Flickr: The Significance of

Geographical Informationin Photos

Catt (with Cope)

Where 2.0 2008

State the problem:

Garbage in, Garbage out.

It goes both ways!

How does that happen?

99.9999999% of the time, that’s just fine

(ish)

Why is it so hard the other way round?

“Until then men had been aware of one voice only from above — bellowing or thundering — the voice of the storm.”

Le Corbusier

“[W]e can lay a persistently retrievable history of the things that are done and

witnessed there over any place that can specified with lat/long coordinates.”

Adam Greenfield

Hi, my name is Aaron

I am not a number

Places have meaning

Reverse geocoding

“Nearest linear object”

Flickr

neighbourhood

locality

county

region

country

street

maybe

locality

county

region

country

continent

and airports (and “hollywood”)

maybe

“metro”

“street”

(neighbourhood)

(duh)

FireEagle

village megatropolis

Dopplr

San Jose

San Francisco

Geonames

shake before use

What’s going on?

What he said

Inverness

Millerton

Petaluma

Petaluma

Inverness

Millerton

Petaluma

Inverness

Millerton

Petaluma

Inverness

Millerton

millerton@cityofpetaluma.net

Give up, now?

Corrections!

Let’s look at Crusty Bottom Gulch again.

Give up now, or ask for help?

Still, not perfect (or is it?)

U2 - Can still say where (someday, maybe)

I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

WOE IDs (and APIs)

http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2255564465/http://tinyurl.com/5n9z2fhttp://speedbird.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-long-here-and-the-big-now/http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2379084552/http://flickr.com/photos/mtlweblog/185132626/http://flickr.com/photos/jlbove/2346874577/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1065896029http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2115985327/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/322405443http://flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/2434362687http://flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/245027280/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1749018945http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2261077949http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1557078849http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2375245599/http://flickr.com/photos/kellan/2076404433http://flickr.com/photos/george/474737715/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/860537013http://flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2452755735

It’s a good problem to have