The photo sharing site Zooomr has lifted all it’s limits, including transfer and storage limits, forever. This means that you can upload all you photos to the site and share them (or not) for free.
This site was a flickr equivalent, but with geotagging long before Yahoo (the current owner of flickr) integrated it.
The service (still in beta) has been going through a tough few days trying to get it’s third generation site up and running. This work is still ongoing and the old version 2 site is currently live. I hoped that when version 3 of zooomr is launched it will have over taken flickr again and that the race will continue to give us all a better product, regardless of the service we use.
Personally I will still be using flickr for my “arty farty” pictures and geek community photo sharing, and Picasaweb for small collections of stuff, but I have decided to upload all my digital images to zooomr and share a selection of them. It was my intention to take out a pro subscription with flickr and upload everything, but if zooomr is free and will have more features I am willing to give it a try first. Let’s just hope the business modal holds up and we have a great service for years to come.
Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop; to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the “Show in Google Earth” button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at http://www.locr.com.