Flickr, Geotagging, GPS and the Nokia N95
April 14th, 2007 | Published in Development, Mobile, Nokia, Nseries, S60 | 8 Comments
Over the weekend I was able to play around with the new Nokia N95 and the results were pretty cool (except that the battery crapped out before I could finish).
For those not interested in the geek bits, here’s the end result.
For those interested in the geek bits, here’s what happened.
- I walked around the park. Whenever I saw something interesting I would take a picture using the Nokia N95.
- Once the picture was taken, then the picture would automatically get uploaded to Flickr using Shozu.
- I was using Shozu because it’s the only program that allows your photos to be geotagged directly in the N95 (it’s not supported natively in the S60 software).
- Once uploaded to Flickr (which happened in the background while I was walking), then I was able to put all the pictures in a set.
- Flickr then provides a visual interface to display all of the results on a map.
Overall, it was pretty simple to use. Some features that I’d like to try and develop (or have someone else develop) are:
- the ability to have Shozu/N95 automatically upload to a specific Flickr set
- the ability to plot the N95’s “Trip Distance” on a map as well. This way it would show the exact route that you took on a map in addition to where you took pictures.
- the ability to embed these maps directly on my blog (I know there’s a mashup solution using Google maps and the Flickr API (details here) but I’d like to extend this using sets and not just a general Flickr feed. Maybe I can integrate Flickr set RSS feeds with Google Maps
Anyway, check it out. Curious to hear your feedback.
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm (#)
How do you get ShoZu installed on your Nokia N95, because I have the phone, and have visited the ShoZu site, but the N95 is not listed as a supported phone, and I even tried to download the software after picked a similar phone, but the software once downloaded to the phone told me my phone is not recognized… so I am puzzled as to how it works. There are so many sites like yours commenting on this program while using the Nokia N95.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:20 am (#)
I downloaded and installed Shozu on my N95 using the N93 option…
July 25th, 2007 at 11:32 pm (#)
You should check out ZoneTag from Yahoo Research Berkeley. They just released the 3rd edition version that works on the N95 with gps.
You also get suggested tags for flickr based on your location and immediate upload with geo tags. Basically it’s awesome.
http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com
July 26th, 2007 at 2:34 am (#)
I found that Shozu made my phone really unstable. Uninstalled and it’s steady as a rock (again).
(The v12 firmware, if you’re interested.)
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:26 am (#)
[...] Geotagging with Nokia, FlickR and ShoZu [...]
December 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm (#)
my n95 refused to work with the camera, gps and Shozu running, ZoneTag from Yahoo Research Berkeley is way better, i’ve not had any issues with that app at all!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm (#)
Please ignore, or delete, my comment of this morning. I have done for thorough tests today and cannot replicate it. My latest theory is that I may need to restart Zonetag, or simply reconnect it to the GPS, after any temporary periods where the GPS lock is lost.
However, I’ll need to test it even more to even verify this theory. For now, I am happy to say that the images can be tagged correctly, even if the upload occurs later and in a different location to the capture. Secondly, the location logging does seem to work properly, taking a reading every minute of so. Perhaps I simply misused it last night.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:01 pm (#)
Maybe ADnota GeoTag is a good solution.
http://www.adnota.com/en/products/ADnota_geotag/ADnota_geotag_intro.html