[OSM-talk] Photobucket

[Tom Carden]

On 16/06/06, Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone using photobucket (www.photobucket.com) to store street name
> photos?
>
> It provides 1Gb free storage, with the ability to link directly to any
> image.  Images are reduced to a maximum size of 1Mb, but this is more than
> adequate for street signs.  Can't see any snags with it.

The differentiating thing for photo sharing services for me is how
well they deal with metadata and search. I currently advocate Flickr
for this reason alone. We've got Flickr pro accounts (effectively
unlimited storage) for Isle of Wight and Mapchester for trying out
their geo search tools. Unfortunately their geo tools aren't live yet,
hence we've not done anything much, but they are apparently imminent
and will almost certainly behave in a very similar way to the now
defunct geobloggers.com

Also if services support things like georss they will tie in nicely
with the work that Nick is doing on annotation layers.  I'm all for
making this effortless.

Best,

Tom.