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Combine Google Maps With Your Photo Album

gallery.jobemedia.org — This site has a tutorial on using Google Maps with your photo album. Looks awesome. Each album has a latitude and longitude so it shows up as a pin on a map of the world. When you click a pin, up pops the highlight photo for the albums at that location. Makes a great front page to a gallery. Includes a demo with 200 albums.

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  • jobeus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25This is actually my site... A little scared about the Digg effect, but I think it's pretty neat, in general, the mapping of the albums... Seems to be a hit with my friends, everyone wants one... I don't have the storage for everyone's pics, but would be a neat addition to PicasaWeb one day or something.
    • str3ama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3great work and idea, you should release the source. Also you may want to remove some of those private pics that are on there (if there are any). Nice work..
    • quomen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I'm curious, why is this any different from flickr's geotagging service?
    • chidade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@ guomen

      The Google Earth maps are in better detail than the Yahoo/Flickr maps. I can't tell the different parts of Tokyo apart, for example, so I don't know where to pin my photos exactly.
    • kazimir34, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You're right yahoo map isn't as detailed as google, but it's actually a lot easier to use.
      It's just a matter of time for google to get the same features.
    • trecool95, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4That looks way better than my crappy Flash map.
    • ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How long does it take to code something like this/learn the Google API? Great work by the way!
    • ronnieroller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have had something like this for awhile for my gallery: http://www.wallyx.com/gallery/map/
      I use gallery2 software with the google maps plugin. Works great! All OSS.

      Gallery: http://gallery.menalto.com/
      Map Extension: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:Map
    • drimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You have some great albums, btw! I really liked the pictures of your trip to Belize and the Blue Hole and the pictures of hiking in Canada. Nice work!
    • winkydo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1flickr does geotagging. it would be nice if it included a full map of only your pictures, showing the same sort of data.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1PicasaWeb actually supports geotagging as well, although I don't think they've fully finished implementing it yet.

      If you examine the RSS feeds, you'll see that they include the geo namespaces. Also, Picasa has integration with Google Earth, so that you can place your pictures on points on the globe and thus geotag them that way.

      I think the only missing piece is for this geo data to be sent to PicasaWeb somehow.
    • stan205, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a new feature that will be released soon to PhotoBlog:

      http://digg.com/software/Photoblog_New_Feature_Teaser_GeoTags_and_more_Video_Included
  • fazeli, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I wholeheartedly endorse this product and/or person.
  • neilgalloway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah, it is super cool. Hopefully if it gets dugg it won't kill the site with a lot of traffic. This is definitely a marketable feature of any picture site and would be a great addition to any custom software.
  • shubjero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Jobeus you did an awesome job utilizing the google maps api and designing your gallery from scratch. I envy your gallery uniqueness ;)
  • tehjarvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'll use this only to put a picture of Godzilla next to Japan.
  • mistarojaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7um, doesn't flickr already have this? i believe they call it 'geotagging'

    • bickdigg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1flickr uses Google Earth
    • jerryknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Flickr uses Yahoo maps, which look remarkably similar to Google's maps.

      http://www.flickr.com/map/

      It's not a very prominent feature, probably because after the gee-whiz reaction, it's not very useful. There's just not that many circumstances where anyone would care where on Earth you took a picture. It's yet another Flickr feature for bored people to browse.
  • barnis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yeah smugmug has had this feature for a year or more now...though i have found the work required to find a lat long for EVERY pic makes it a bit cumbersome...i need auto-tagged pics from a GPS enabled camera :)

    http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps
  • BorsKaegel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What a fantastic feature. From one Designer to another, my hat is off to you, sir.

    Please be sure to keep that tutorial up for a bit. I know I will be experimenting with it once I get on my windows machine with all my Web Authoring software. (Yeah, Ubuntu rocks! Windows is my developing machine, however.)
  • crafty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Looks good. You can already do this with flickr: http://flickr.com/map

    Works great with my GPS camera-phone that stamps the EXIF with the location. You need to tell flickr to automatically import the location from the EXIF in your settings: http://flickr.com/account/geo/exif/

    That said the level of detail/zoom on google's maps is much better than yahoo's.
    • mtg101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you upload pictures form your GPS cellphone to Flickr using ShoZu, you can get them automatically Geotagged without messing about with complicated EXIF stuff.

      http://www.ShoZu.com/
  • bunnytek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1definitely a prost to jobeus for this.
    a few similar sites being frappr and placial.
    http://www.platial.com/
    http://www.frappr.com/
    placial being the most functional to do want i want with it.
  • gregorr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice widescreen design.

    Another site which enables the user to create such maps and much more is:
    http://triptracker.net

    You can also integrate your maps in your blog like this:
    http://amazonswim.triptracker.net/ or
    http://zda2007.fri.uni-lj.si/?cid=blog&cloc=true
  • AnimaInCorpore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3jobeus has shown an easy way to get geotagging of photos working on your site, that's cool. ;)
    Actually there are many sites out there which support geotagging. Some have been mentioned already and here are even more:

    http://www.locr.com (you will get Wikipedia informations about the location too)
    http://www.panoramio.com
    http://loc.alize.us
    http://www.zooomr.com
  • cartravel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Digg site is one of the best

    www.cartravelrentacar.com ( Portugal , Algarve )
  • MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1panoramio is probably the best out of all these sites.
  • nicksource, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone know where to get the code/files for something like this to put on your own website?

    I don't want to use a service.
    Thanks, Nick.
  • ntfs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1further proof that web 2.0 is awesome, good work!
  • Michypoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"Hey guys, check out these pictures of my little sister! She's only 12 years old. Here are the coordinate to where you can locate her. :)"

    The first thought that popped in my head. Seems fitting for any potential pedophile. XD

    But regardless, great implementation. :D
  • bwizard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://www.whoopy.com
  • abwesth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great work - you should release the source :)
  • jobeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3After a few questions to do so, here's the source for my gallery (custom) and the map thing. Excuse the horriblenessish of it... I assumed no one would ever see it. :)

    http://gallery.jobemedia.org/src/jobe_gallery-0.1.tgz
  • waz67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Another hosted service that does this in a nice easy way:

    http://www.tripdiary.com

    Also lets you add videos and audio clips.
  • srok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Alright, here's the question that a silent few want to ask, but haven't...

    How do *I* do this?

    I'm not a programmer (so the source is greek to me), my friends aren't either, but we think this is a cool implementation of this. How can my friends and I put this on our silly little websites?
    Forgive my ignorance, but I would appreciate any help.

    And thanks jobeus!!
    • quebequoi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mom... how many times did I tell you to get off digg! Go make me a sammich!

      j/k
      ;)
  • Dipster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use a widget from Widgetbox.com that does the same thing with my Flickr albums.

    http://www.dippyland.com/pictures
  • gateway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have been playing around a lot with creating gps type photos, I wrote a blog about the method and software I use
    http://ibareitall.com/geo-photos-gps-plus-camera-geolocation-photographs/ I have recently started doing this on all my hikes around my local area.. 5 down 137 more hikes to do :P http://ibareitall.com/baltimore-canyon-hike/ google map mash up, google earth download as well.

  • rakerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kind of old news. But if you want to try this at home kids, I've got a page of info on geocoding photos.
    http://www.akerman.ca/geocode-photos.html
  • danbartov, on 07/29/2008, -0/+0I’m not using locr …
    I found this site http://www.trekinu.com much easy to share my albums.
    It is very easy to use tool I like the idea and in 5 simple steps you have something to send to your friends or share in your site.
    You can check this trek for example: http://www.trekinu.com/viewtrek.aspx?trkid=8h5b5gl ...
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