[OSM-talk] [OTish] Free, geocoded photo database?

[Nick Hill]

Hello Nick

On a related issue, is there a free software application which can 
combine a folder of photos and a GPX track putting the lat/lon/ele into 
the EXIF tag of the photo?

This is presumably very easy; the one issue being how to enter the 
offset for the EXIF timestamp vs GPX timestamps.

There is a PERL module which can read/write EXIF data including geodata. 
Presumably the EXIF format for geodata is well defined.

If photos are EXIF tagged with lat/lon, we shouldn't need a photo 
database as such; We would only need a database mapping photo URLs to 
lat/lon. In other words, a search engine which is aware of and indexes 
geodata from photo EXIF data.



Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> 
> One thing I'd like to do with Freemap is allow users to contribute photos of 
> the countryside. Now it would make sense if, rather than store the photos 
> locally, I use a third party, geocoded photo database.
> 
> I believe sites such as flickr offer this but it is not integral (i.e. 
> geocoding is not compulsory) and photos are not automatically put under a 
> Free licence. 
> 
> Is anyone aware of any existing service that offers geocoded photos under a 
> guaranteed Free licence? Or should maybe freemap start up its own?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
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