[OSM-talk] Photobucket

[Etienne]

On 6/16/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> But you can query them using their API (e.g. for tag search) and get
> concise xml back telling you what's where.  Also their RSS isn't /that/
> hard to pick apart and get a photo URL from (though it is a bit annoying).
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Yes, their tools for manually getting at things are better than Flickr's.
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Understood, but how do you propose to get things out of Photobucket
> according to where you're actually looking?  (I confess I haven't looked
> closely at Photobucket any time recently).


Simple. Tag a node or segment with the url, like this:

<node id='123'>
  <tag k='image' v='
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/80n80n/DSC02433.jpg'/>
</node>

Any client can then serve up the image however it suits them.

Etienne

I expect Flickr will soon allow queries by bounding box as geobloggers
> did, so for a given map view you'll be able to see what things look like.
> Any other geo/photo solution that wants my OSM-related attention will need
> to do this too.
>
> Tom.
>
>
>
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