Tutorial - Take your Geolocated photos into Google Maps or Google earth via Geo-RSS with ease!
Written by Glenn Letham
Saturday, 01 December 2007
This may be old-school for some of you, others will appreciate this
simple tip. All you need here is a Nokia N95 or other GPS-enabled
device, some geotagged photos,
a flickr account, a geo-RSS feed, and a Google account (optional) -
read on for this simple GeoRSS photo feed, google map tutorial
If you use a GPS-enabled cameraphone (like the Nokia N95, N82, Nokia
Navigator etc...) then you can easily post your photos to flickr or
other online services (use a tool like Shozu to help with this). But
did you know that Flickr creates a Geo-RSS feed from your photo stream?
Even better, you can simply copy and paste your Geo-RSS feed location
into the google maps search bar and voila... your photos are now
available via Google maps to share with others, save to your mymaps or
whatever the heck you want to do. Simply look at the bottom of your
flickr page, you'll see options like RSS, GeoFeed and KML - yes you can
easily open your photos in Google Earth too with a flickr provided KML
file!
For users of Google, if you save your custom map in your MyMaps you'll have the ability to easily share your map feeds and you can even embed them in a webpage or blog.
Go to your flickr page, scroll to the bottomcopy the GeoRss feed url
jump back to google maps
paste the RSS feed url into the search bar and click "search maps"
click the "Link to this page" you can grab a link or embed the map into your webpage (See image below)
Selecting the Paste html code into your webpage is
simple and displayed below - this is a live Google Map pulling my
geotagged photos from the GeoRSS feed via Flickr.
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