{"id":35,"date":"2008-04-15T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/geotagging-photos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:21:01","slug":"geotagging-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/geotagging-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Geotagging Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good post over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pix\/archive\/2008\/04\/07\/geotagging-photos-with-windows-live-without-using-a-gps-device.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MS Digital Memories Experience<\/a> blog about how you can use the various Windows Live tools to add Geotags to photos without the need for GPS.&#160;&#160; It&#8217;s then followed with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pix\/archive\/2008\/04\/15\/make-a-3d-photo-tour-with-live-search-maps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">another post<\/a> about linking your photos to a tour within Live Search Maps.<\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking&#8230; That&#8217;s pretty cool stuff, and well done to those guys for putting it all together, but something that does all of that in a more integrated way would be so much nicer.&#160; I&#8217;m a fan of Live Photo Gallery and given there are so many other Geotagging tools out there it would seem like a great thing to add to this &#8216;software&#8217; part of the Live &#8216;service&#8217;.&#160; Given MS&#8217;s other mapping and virtual earth tools this shouldn&#8217;t be a too hard to integrate (can you tell I don&#8217;t do development?!).<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d really like to see though are the things like <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/photosynth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photosynth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.live.com\/Silverlight+2+Deep+Zoom.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Deepzoom<\/a>.&#160; Photosynth still impresses the hell out me, and I can&#8217;t wait to see it working in a product form.&#160; I&#8217;ve used it in some demos at work as an example of what sort of technology we can look forward to and it always seems to capture peoples imaginations.&#160; Everyone can think up a use for it.&#160; Hopefully something will appear before too long.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Having played with the <a href=\"http:\/\/photozoom.mslivelabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoZoom<\/a> site a little I reckon that would be another good addition to Live Photo Gallery.&#160; It&#8217;d certainly be a good example of Software + Services &#8211; click a button on your desktop and MS processes your photos in the background.&#160; Quite what format they&#8217;d be delivered in I&#8217;m not sure, perhaps similar to what&#8217;s on the site now, an object you can paste into an email or website.&#160; Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; enough rambling from me.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good post over on the MS Digital Memories Experience blog about how you can use the various Windows Live tools to add Geotags to photos without the need for GPS.&#160;&#160; It&#8217;s then followed with another post about linking your photos to a tour within Live Search Maps. It got me thinking&#8230; That&#8217;s pretty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/geotagging-photos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geotagging Photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[528,76,77,78,28,13,18,39,40],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-cool-stuff","tag-deepzoom","tag-geotag","tag-gps","tag-live","tag-microsoft","tag-photos","tag-photosynth","tag-seadragon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}