Talk:Geotagging
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[edit] Mergers
There are outstanding merge proposals. Discuss below. -- Robocoder (talk | contribs) 16:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mergefrom Geoblogging
Approve. Geoblogging is just Geotagging of blog entries. Propose we add a section called "Applications of Geotagging" with a "Geoblogging" subsection and move some of the info from the Geoblogging page there. It doesn't have enough content to be a separate article. --Ishi Gustaedr 19:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
- Types of geotagging. If Geoblogging is geotagging blog entries, then geotagging photos should be equally described in this section, as well as geotagging of other data structures. It is ok to keep these types of geotagging listed here and a small definition associated with them, but further techniques specific to each type should have their own page, such as the geocoded photograph. Planeteye 03:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mergefrom Geotagged
The geotagged entry in Wikipedia represents a neutral URL that can be used for defining a geotagged tag using the rel=tag microformat. Some tagging systems define tags as simple strings, however Technorati have promoted a microformat for tagging denoted rel=tag. This microformat makes the href of the <a> tag in XHTML the definition of the tag, while the label is just a human readable visual cue.
The Technorati web site provides some examples; for example a tag relating to iPod might be encoded in XHTML as
<a href="http://apple.com/ipod" rel="tag">iPod</a>
whereas a tag relating to gravity might be encoded as
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity" rel="tag">Gravity</a>
If people wish to tag web content so as to indicate that it contains a spatial reference (i.e. that it has been geotagged) then I would propose that they be able to use
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagged" rel="tag">geotagged</a>
Currently geotagging is mainly restricted to content (e.g. photos and bookmarks) hosted by social sites (e.g. Flickr and del.icio.us). But if it is to be possible to geotag content that is published individually (e.g. a blog entry) then it should be possible to geotag it using the rel=tag microformat. In turn this would benefit from a neutral URL such as could be offered by Wikipedia. -- 212.44.22.81, 15:57, 3 April 2006
- Geotagging is however, unique from geoblogging. Geotagging refers in its name geo (location) and tagging (information). Therefore, you are tagging information onto a location. Sites like Flickr do not accomplish this, and should really be referred to as "photo-geoing," or attaching coordinates to a photograph.
- Only sites like http://www.grapheety.com allow a location to be tagged, or blogged about. Hence geoblogging, or geotagging, geoblogging being the superset of geotagging including user information onto a geography in addition to tags. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.176.151.7 (talk • contribs)
- "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagged" rel="tag">geotagged</a>" will work, even if "geotagged" is redirected elesewhere. Andy Mabbett 19:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Geocoding vs Geotagging
Moved the following from the overview section because it is more like original research or a topic for discussion than an encylopedia entry: "But the utility of two terms roughly meaning the same thing can be discussed. In reference to the definitions of both terms, one could propose to call geocoding the global process of assigning geographic information to data, while geotagging would relate to a part of this general process, the action consisting in integrating the geocoding metadata in the basic information (e.g. EXIF metadata). The definition of geotagging should then be modified consequently. Thus, there would be a conceptual hierarchy between both terms, which can only enrich the language." Ishi Gustaedr 18:48, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
- The current overview states "Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding", which seems to ignore the proposed convention. If we follow the definitions of "code" and "tag", it follows that geocoding should be the practice of creating a code, in this case a geographic one, while geotagging should be the subsequent activity of assigning such code to something. I propose we remove the confusing reference to Geocoding. Planeteye 03:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] BLUE2CAN from Red Hen Systems, Inc.
== The Blue2CAN is an integrated solution for geotagging digital still images with GPS data. It plugs right into the 10-pin connector of your digital camera without the use of cables. It uses a small amount of power from the camera to operate it's Bluetooth radio and connects automatically to any Bluetooth enables GPS receiver in near proximity. There is zero configuration required. Once the initial pairing between the GPS and the blue2can have been made, the GPS will remain paired even when the camera is off. For JPG files the geo-spatial data is contained in the industry standard EXIF tags; for RAW files the metadata is maintained by RAW image workflows and is put in EXIF tags when RAW files are converted to JPG. All photos will appear as pushpins on a map so you know exactly where you took a picture.
You can check out the website [[1]] == —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.17.200.93 (talk) 18:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
