GeoTagging your posts and videos
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
A few days ago I started a new project: a videoblog or vlog in Spanish, called hombreloboTV.
There is only one video so far, but after publishing it, I started investigating about the use of GeoTags, that is, marking the videos with a location marker. Why ? Because that gives you the possibility of looking for the videos in a world map, where you can look at the videos recorded in the place that you like most. I travel a lot, so I plan on having 6 or 7 countries covered this year. So back to geotagging.......
I read a few very interesting articles on the subject, among them some from Vlogsmaps and this about getagging using Microformats. All good but not quite there yet. Different formats are proposed, with no clear benefit for any of them.
Then I found this service: Tagzania, that allows you to mark different points (in my case, URLs) with a free account. The great thing about the service is that allows you to create a Google Map (this is a link to a Google Map of my videos) with all your points and also a Google Earth map (this is a KML link to a Google Earth map of my videos). You only have to create more links to your account and the maps get updated.
The service is very good. Now if they would only allow for clickable URLs .... (I emailed Luistxo from Tagzania and he told me they are working on it). And then, let me dream .... updating my account with my own RSS, so I can add the geotags to my individual posts and my Tagzania account gets updated automatically .... :)
There is only one video so far, but after publishing it, I started investigating about the use of GeoTags, that is, marking the videos with a location marker. Why ? Because that gives you the possibility of looking for the videos in a world map, where you can look at the videos recorded in the place that you like most. I travel a lot, so I plan on having 6 or 7 countries covered this year. So back to geotagging.......
I read a few very interesting articles on the subject, among them some from Vlogsmaps and this about getagging using Microformats. All good but not quite there yet. Different formats are proposed, with no clear benefit for any of them.
Then I found this service: Tagzania, that allows you to mark different points (in my case, URLs) with a free account. The great thing about the service is that allows you to create a Google Map (this is a link to a Google Map of my videos) with all your points and also a Google Earth map (this is a KML link to a Google Earth map of my videos). You only have to create more links to your account and the maps get updated.
The service is very good. Now if they would only allow for clickable URLs .... (I emailed Luistxo from Tagzania and he told me they are working on it). And then, let me dream .... updating my account with my own RSS, so I can add the geotags to my individual posts and my Tagzania account gets updated automatically .... :)
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