[OSM-talk] Photobucket

[Etienne]

Tom
The problem I have with flickr is that urls for linking are not a function
of the original image name.  For example, I have an image dsc02443.jpg which
can only be accessed at flickr if you know their id for your image (in this
case 130811439_2a3fdb42bd.jpg), using this url:

http://static.flickr.com/52/130811439_2a3fdb42bd.jpg

Whereas some of the other services (which seemed to be geared towards
linking from Craigslist and eBay) have predictable urls which makes it a lot
easier to link *from* OSM to the image.   For example, with photobucket, if
I know the file name I can predict the url will be:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg

The geo tools that Flickr is developing do sound interesting, but I've been
looking at the problem from the other direction.  Not answering the question
"where was this photo taken" but rather "what does this place that I've
located on a map, actually look like".  Both are useful things to be able to
do, but the latter seems more interesting from an OSM perspective.

Etienne


On 6/16/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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