On 6/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Carden</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@tom-carden.co.uk">tom@tom-carden.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Tom<br>> The problem I have with flickr is that urls for linking are not a function<br>> of the original image name. For example, I have an image dsc02443.jpg<br>> which<br>> can only be accessed at flickr if you know their id for your image (in
<br>> this<br>> case 130811439_2a3fdb42bd.jpg), using this url:<br>><br>> <a href="http://static.flickr.com/52/130811439_2a3fdb42bd.jpg">http://static.flickr.com/52/130811439_2a3fdb42bd.jpg</a><br><br>But you can query them using their API (
e.g. for tag search) and get<br>concise xml back telling you what's where. Also their RSS isn't /that/<br>hard to pick apart and get a photo URL from (though it is a bit annoying).<br><br>><br>> Whereas some of the other services (which seemed to be geared towards
<br>> linking from Craigslist and eBay) have predictable urls which makes it a<br>> lot<br>> easier to link *from* OSM to the image. For example, with photobucket,<br>> if<br>> I know the file name I can predict the url will be:
<br>><br>> <a href="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg">http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg</a><br>><br><br>Yes, their tools for manually getting at things are better than Flickr's.
<br><br>> The geo tools that Flickr is developing do sound interesting, but I've<br>> been<br>> looking at the problem from the other direction. Not answering the<br>> question<br>> "where was this photo taken" but rather "what does this place that I've
<br>> located on a map, actually look like". Both are useful things to be able<br>> to<br>> do, but the latter seems more interesting from an OSM perspective.<br>><br><br>Understood, but how do you propose to get things out of Photobucket
<br>according to where you're actually looking? (I confess I haven't looked<br>closely at Photobucket any time recently).</blockquote><div><br>Simple. Tag a node or segment with the url, like this:<br><br><node id='123'>
<br> <tag k='image' v='<span class="q"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg" target="_blank">http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg
</a>'/><br></node><br></span> <br>Any client can then serve up the image however it suits them.<br><br>Etienne<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I expect Flickr will soon allow queries by bounding box as geobloggers<br>did, so for a given map view you'll be able to see what things look like.<br>Any other geo/photo solution that wants my OSM-related attention will need
<br>to do this too.<br><br>Tom.<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>