Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Photo Breadcrumbs


Lake Welch HDR, originally uploaded by Me (?).


I have started geotagging my Flickr photos when appropriate. It got me wondering if I could use the geotags to act as a breadcrumb trail to see where I had been.

So last night I knocked up a quick mashup between Flickr and Google maps to put markers on the map for each photo and then draw a line between each photo in order of date taken. You can then browse the trail to see where I have been. Great for virtual stalkers.

My [non-existent] javascript skills have failed me to do anything more advanced but maybe when I get some time I will be able to add 'next' and 'previous' buttons so you can 'walk' the path of photos.

See the breadcrumb trail.

Has anyone does this properly anywhere?

1 comment:

The Gorse Fox said...

The Gorse Fox thinks this is a brilliant idea... and what an interesting use of geo-tagging. (His new phone automatically geo-tags photos - so can see an application like this being a "must have")