In terms of appropriateness: I'm already struck by issues of
granularity with regard to privacy: My Twitter client wants to geo-tag
the snapshots I publish such that all the people to whom I owe money
can discover my address, when I'd rather just tag the picture as
"Frome, UK".
Paul
On 3 Feb 2009, at 15:35, Scott Wilson wrote:
> "location services" are built into a great many devices now, using a
> range of methods (GPS, mobile signal triangulation, Wifi Skyhook
> etc) and so geotagging for all kinds of media is going to be
> automatic at point of capture/creation.
>
> Actually the fact that this isn't dc:coverage merits the question -
> what exactly is appropriate for including typical geo information,
> as in where the person was when the post/photo/video/tweet/SMS/
> docoument/etc was created?
>
> On 3 Feb 2009, at 14:53, Andy Powell wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>> Clearly, as we see a growth in cameras that geo-tag automatically
>> we will see a significant rise in the use of geo-based services
>> because the costs reduce to near zero while the benefits grow
>> (because more people are doing it).
>>
>> I (strongly) suspect that you are in a significant minority of
>> people who geo-tag manually (though I admit I could be wrong?),
>> presumably because the perceived costs are too high and/or the
>> perceived benefits too low. (People finding it too costly to
>> manually create metadata - now where have I heard that before?).
>> In that sense, I'm the counter example to you - whilst I can be
>> bothered to tag my images with things like 'bath' and 'uk' (and I
>> can see the benefits in doing so, even given the fact that 'bath'
>> is a *terrible* tag :-) ), I haven't yet found a compelling reason
>> to manually geo-tag my images.
>>
>> I certianly take James' point that, in an ideal world, being more
>> explicit/precise is better than not. The same argument can be made
>> about all metadata I suspect and much of my own work over the last
>> 10 years or so has tried to move us in that direction.
>> Unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world :-(
>>
>> Andy
>> --
>> Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation
>> http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Repositories discussion list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Nix
>>> Sent: 03 February 2009 14:07
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: DC:coverage- geo treatment by DRIVER
>>>
>>> The gazeteer to/from coordinates problem appears to be well
>>> on the way
>>> to poly-lingual solution. I've just put صنعاء and Сана
>>> (Arabic and Russian translit respectively, lest your mailer
>>> doesn't render them) into Google Earth, and both went
>>> directly to Sanaa (Yemen).
>>>
>>> There's information on the Google geo-coding and reverse
>>> geo-coding APIs here:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-n
>>> on-google-geocoders
>>> which repositories software could, presumably, call upon.
>>>
>>>
>>> More personally, I've manually geotagged my photos with
>>> lat/long for several years. This camera:
>>> http://www.techshout.com/cameras/2008/09/nikon-introduces-cool
>>> pix-p6000-with-built-in-gps/
>>> has, like many mobiles phones, built-in GPS which tags
>>> photos as you take them.
>>>
>>> Apple's new consumer photo library software
>>> http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
>>>
>>> allows has an interface which facilitates quick and simple
>>> geo-tagging from place names without knowledge of actual
>>> coordinates:
>>>
>>> http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/ilife/iphoto/2009/tutoria
>>> ls/apple-ilife-iphoto-organize_your_photos_by_places-us-200901
>>> 06_r640-10cie.mov?width=640&height=400#places-placesTutorial
>>>
>>> It's also got a rather nice facial recognition tool:
>>>
>>> http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/#faces
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 Feb 2009, at 14:00, Pauline Simpson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eventually, a Repository user/or depositor should be able
>>> to type in
>>>> London and a pop up (just like Flight bookings) will offer all the
>>>> alternatives maybe either as text or graphic, alongside coordinates
>>>> (or vice versa), I accept James point about naming differences in
>>>> gazetteers - but it has been ever thus.
>>>
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