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Browsing geotagged photos from Picasa Web Albums
August 30, 2007
Posted by Ping Hsin Chen, Software Engineer, Picasa
About a month ago, we added a new feature to
Picasa Web Albums
that makes it easy to geotag your favorite photos. With the "Map My Photos" option, you can literally just drag and drop your pictures onto a map. Already, the Picasa Web Albums community has added map information to millions of photos from all over the world.
Now we have a new Mapplet that lets you search and browse all of the geolocated photos in Google Maps. Just click here to
add the Picasa Web Albums Mapplet
to your "My Maps" tab. Then, zoom in to your favorite spot on Google Maps, enable our Mapplet and watch the photos roll in! You can see what snapshots exist of your favorite getaway or take a virtual vacation to Paris. The world is your oyster.
While you browse all the photos around a given location, you can also do keyword searches drawing from the captions associated with each photo. For instance,
pop over to London
, zoom in to get a bird's-eye view, then type "eye" into our Mapplet's search field. Now you'll see a more finely filtered set of photos taken in and around the gigantic
London Eye
observation wheel by folks from all over the globe.
If you'd like to learn how to add map locations to your own photos using Picasa Web Albums, check out this previous
blog post
and ou
r
demo gallery
. Once you've added a location to your photo, just designate the album as both public and searchable, and we'll get it on the map.
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