Edit Geography Bulk?

[DodgeV83]

Putting in the location information for every picture gets old fast! Will there ever be a way to do it in bulk, like when adding keywords...etc?

[{JT}]

This will be coming soon.

Putting in the location information for every picture gets old fast! Will there ever be a way to do it in bulk, like when adding keywords...etc?

[muddyknees]

This will be coming soon.I'll be looking forward to this!

I've tried a few shareware utilities that do this reasonably well, such as WWMX, Quakemap, Topofusion, Robophoto. I also use DNRGarmin (which interfaces well with ArcView GIS). I've also tried "rolling my own" photo-tracklog timestamp matching and imagemap creation using map images and tracklog files from USAPhotomaps which has been a particular favorite "mapper" of mine, although Google certainly does have a slicker interface.

I hope to find some time soon to EXIF-geocode and re-upload some of my Yosemite photo's for which i have stored tracklogs, to see how your current feature works.

In particular, I'm curious whether I can get make it automatically "zoom in" to just the "bounding rectangle" that contains my gallery of geocoded photo's from a particular local excursion - what I've seen from the examples posted so far is that one starts out zoomed out to the entire globe! Thats rather useless if your excursion is by foot rather than by jet!

Gary

[muddyknees]

This will be coming soon.
I noticed on Qaukemap's web site http://www.earthquakemap.com/ that there is the following announcement:

Store your digital photos with smugmug.com - watch this site for updates. QuakeMap and Smugmug.com integration coming soon...

Is this an independant effort or are you folks cooking up something cooperatively? Either way, there are a lot of possibilities here - at least for US customers, since Quakemap relies on the Terraserver maps that only cover the US, but this would allow photo's to be pinpointed with finer detail in most areas than with the current Google imaging - down to about 1 foot/pixel "resolution" using 1 meter/pixel greyscale arial photos.

Of course, still need a bulk way to place the GPS coords into the exif, and Quakemap doesn't currently do that, even though it can currently read them. Fortunately there is a free way to do that in bulk, using one of the utilities that is part of WWMX.

Gary

[colourbox]

I tried this the other night and had a comment. Edit Geography can auto-locate a street address, but I was trying to locate coordinates for a place within a national park. It can't be done by street address, so I entered the coordinates found on www.lat-long.com. I wanted to adjust the coordinates until they reflected exactly where I was in the park. But once the coordinates are entered, there doesn't seem to be a way to refine them without changing the numbers a tiny bit and then checking the map, which takes a long time. I hope that we'll have the ability to enter "rough" coordinates, see it close up on the map, and then have some easy way of nudging them to the exact, final location, such as dragging the little marker around and applying the coordinates represented by the new position.

[Andy]

I tried this the other night and had a comment. Edit Geography can auto-locate a street address, but I was trying to locate coordinates for a place within a national park. It can't be done by street address, so I entered the coordinates found on www.lat-long.com. I wanted to adjust the coordinates until they reflected exactly where I was in the park. But once the coordinates are entered, there doesn't seem to be a way to refine them without changing the numbers a tiny bit and then checking the map, which takes a long time. I hope that we'll have the ability to enter "rough" coordinates, see it close up on the map, and then have some easy way of nudging them to the exact, final location, such as dragging the little marker around and applying the coordinates represented by the new position.


actually, it's very easy to do this with just your mouse. enter the address info, or lat/long if you have some approx lat/long. then on the map screen, simply use y our mouse to indicate a new spot on the map. the lat/long update automatically.

i did this very thing to show different spots at the nyc public library (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17751)

:wave cheers

[colourbox]

Thanks! I guess I must have been getting confused about the click language in the map. Apparently now that I "get" it, one click resets the marker and double-click re-centers the map.

However, I see now that I didn't state the problem very well. This is what is happening. If I'm in Edit Geography, and I want a rural spot in the Midwest, and I type in Lat. and Long., I have two choices for entering that data:
- I can click "Lookup Address." Unfortunately, that returns Address Not Found and the editable marker map centered on the default smugmug HQ locaiton, because I entered lat/long with the address blank. Manual map navigation across the country is necessary.
- My second choice is to click Update under lat/long, but the problem there is that it kicks back to the image, not to the editable marker map. Now the image is recorded with incorrect coordinates and I have to find another way to the editable map.

The way this must be done, since entering lat/long will not work, apparently, is to feed the address lookup with some kind of address than can be looked up and is close enough that you don't have to scroll the too far. Only then can the marker map can be edited in the correct region.

For similar reasons, if I choose Edit Geography for an image that already has lat/long entered, there's no button in there that will take me to that location on the map. The only way to see the editable map, that I know of, is to enter the closest address again, essentially starting over.

If I'm still missing something, fire away! :dunno

[Andy]

Thanks! I guess I must have been getting confused about the click language in the map. Apparently now that I "get" it, one click resets the marker and double-click re-centers the map.

However, I see now that I didn't state the problem very well. This is what is happening. If I'm in Edit Geography, and I want a rural spot in the Midwest, and I type in Lat. and Long., I have two choices for entering that data:
- I can click "Lookup Address." Unfortunately, that returns Address Not Found and the editable marker map centered on the default smugmug HQ locaiton, because I entered lat/long with the address blank. Manual map navigation across the country is necessary.
- My second choice is to click Update under lat/long, but the problem there is that it kicks back to the image, not to the editable marker map. Now the image is recorded with incorrect coordinates and I have to find another way to the editable map.

The way this must be done, since entering lat/long will not work, apparently, is to feed the address lookup with some kind of address than can be looked up and is close enough that you don't have to scroll the too far. Only then can the marker map can be edited in the correct region.

For similar reasons, if I choose Edit Geography for an image that already has lat/long entered, there's no button in there that will take me to that location on the map. The only way to see the editable map, that I know of, is to enter the closest address again, essentially starting over.

If I'm still missing something, fire away! :dunno

if i need to mark a spot that's not an address (e.g. 123 main street, anycity, st, zip) i will use google earth to find the lat/long, it's simple!

google earth, free download (http://earth.google.com)

zoom to your spot, read the lat/long, and enter it manually. fine tune as needed.

[colourbox]

Thank you, I now remember you mentioning the Google Earth app in another map thread. This will help a lot. I'm a Mac guy, but I have a PC around to run GE on.

[Andy]

Thank you, I now remember you mentioning the Google Earth app in another map thread. This will help a lot. I'm a Mac guy, but I have a PC around to run GE on.

yep -- and here's to google making google earth mac-friendly :deal

andy <-- a mac guy now, totally, since january this year when i switched after 20years using pc.

[colourbox]

I'm not worried about it. Google is one company that actually tells you that Mac support is coming, in contrast to companies who don't even bother.

[JamesJWeg]

This will be coming soon.
long "soon" there, or did I miss something?

James.

[Andy]

long "soon" there, or did I miss something?

James.

Hi James - no, you haven't missed anything. Thanks for letting us know how important this is for you!

All the best,

[JamesJWeg]

Hi James - no, you haven't missed anything. Thanks for letting us know how important this is for you!

All the best,
It would be sweet if you could save a location with name and select it out of a list or something of that sort.

James.

[Andy]

So there could be a confusion here:

"Bulk Geography" has been mentioned in several posts. One thing I wouldn't want is to apply the same lat/long to 25 pics in a gallery -- all of the pushpins on the map would be on top of one another!

Just clarifying one point....

[Allen]

So there could be a confusion here:

"Bulk Geography" has been mentioned in several posts. One thing I wouldn't want is to apply the same lat/long to 25 pics in a gallery -- all of the pushpins on the map would be on top of one another!

Just clarifying one point.... This is one thing I was playing with. Locating on the
map where each photo was taken. See example here (http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=952050).
It could be very useful for pre-planning a photo op
for a certain location.

I run Goggle Maps on the side to get the lat/lon and
adjust the numbers to move each photo. Micro moves
involves adjusting the 3rd and forth decimal place.
Al

[Andy]

This is one thing I was playing with. Locating on the
map where each photo was taken. See example here (http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoAlbum&Data=952050).
It could be very useful for pre-planning a photo op
for a certain location.

I run Goggle Maps on the side to get the lat/lon and
adjust the numbers to move each photo. Micro moves
involves adjusting the 3rd and forth decimal place.
Al


Yeah that's fine - I just wanted people to for sure know what would happen if all lat/long were the same for all shots in a gallery :D

[Mike Lane]

Yeah that's fine - I just wanted people to for sure know what would happen if all lat/long were the same for all shots in a gallery :D
It'd be great to have it like the bulk keywords though. All the images lined up on the page with the lat long entry to the side. You wouldn't necessarily want/need the ability to input the same lat or long for each photo, but it'd be cool to be able to enter multiple photos at a time.

[JamesJWeg]

Saving a fixed location under a name would allow someone to use that to get close, currently it is a real pain to even find a general area. Oviously they wouldn't want 25 pins in one spot. Would there ever be a way to place a pin on a gallery instead of just one photo?

James.

[Nikolai]

This will be coming soon.
Of surfacing those new fields in API, including lat/long?:dunno

That would help a lot..

[Andy]

Of surfacing those new fields in API, including lat/long?:dunno

That would help a lot..
put it in the APIs forum, and Don will see it....

[colourbox]

"Bulk Geography" has been mentioned in several posts. One thing I wouldn't want is to apply the same lat/long to 25 pics in a gallery -- all of the pushpins on the map would be on top of one another!

Yes, I ran into this when I got lazy and pasted the same coordinates into several photos that were on the same street. I decided to manually drag them up and down the street slightly to spread them out.

Which leads me to a suggestion. If you allow bulk geo entry, I'd like to see a function you could call something like "autospread" that would offset each photo slightly. Say I enter a location for 20 photos. When I click Save, smugmug maps slightly offsets the photos from each other around the entered location so they can be seen separately and dragged to their actual nearby locations on the map. At first I thought it should offset them in a circle around the entered location, but if smugmug was to go for it with this feature, maybe there would be options. For instance, maybe you could choose from circle, horizontal line, or vertical line. That could make it easier to position a whole gallery of photos along a parade route, for example.

I'm not saying that is the ideal implementation, and you guys are always good at coming up with something better than what's requested. But that's the general idea.

Oh wait...I just thought of this...enter two locations and distribute gallery photos along the line connecting them!!! Or (going crazy here) what if we could paste a curvy path from Illustrator, then smugmug aligns its first endpoint to the entered geo location, and distributes selected photos along that curvy path! (A man can dream, can't he?)

[dwil]

Or how about showing a single pushpin per identical lat/long

I would like to have the option to have a saved "Home", "Grandma's", etc...

[garyjwood]

... For instance, maybe you could choose from circle, horizontal line, or vertical line. That could make it easier to position a whole gallery of photos along a parade route, for example.
... Or (going crazy here) what if we could paste a curvy path from Illustrator, then smugmug aligns its first endpoint to the entered geo location, and distributes selected photos along that curvy path!
Just remember that Latitude/Longitude coordinates are not on a Cartesian grid. For most applications we can assume that the north-south distance between two latitudes is constant (forgetting for a moment the Earth's oblateness.) However, the east-west distance between two longitudes ranges from 0km at the poles to about 111km at the equator.

So any calculations involving distances between lat/long coordinates requires some funky spherical trigonometry. Not impossible, just CPU-intense.

[pdvtokyo]

Hi Andy
I have tried countless times all of your, and other people's, suggestions re. using Google Earth to find latitude / longitude but am still having no luck. When I type (or paste) lat/long coordinates into Google Earth it zooms in exactly to the place in question. But when I try to do the same using Smugmug Geography page, the place mark always ends up on some other part of the map. Also, it appears that it is possible to physically move a place marker to the desired location but, again, I have not been successful. If you could offer any advice, I would appreciate it. BTW I am using a Mac and this is my first post here. Thanks!


actually, it's very easy to do this with just your mouse. enter the address info, or lat/long if you have some approx lat/long. then on the map screen, simply use y our mouse to indicate a new spot on the map. the lat/long update automatically.

i did this very thing to show different spots at the nyc public library (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17751)

:wave cheers

[Andy]

Hi Andy
I have tried countless times all of your, and other people's, suggestions re. using Google Earth to find latitude / longitude but am still having no luck. When I type (or paste) lat/long coordinates into Google Earth it zooms in exactly to the place in question. But when I try to do the same using Smugmug Geography page, the place mark always ends up on some other part of the map. Also, it appears that it is possible to physically move a place marker to the desired location but, again, I have not been successful. If you could offer any advice, I would appreciate it. BTW I am using a Mac and this is my first post here. Thanks!

Are you putting the lat / long in to edit geography and clicking update? Here's a small tute:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=17276

:wave welcome to Dgrin!

[Mike Lane]

Just remember that Latitude/Longitude coordinates are not on a Cartesian grid. For most applications we can assume that the north-south distance between two latitudes is constant (forgetting for a moment the Earth's oblateness.) However, the east-west distance between two longitudes ranges from 0km at the poles to about 111km at the equator.

So any calculations involving distances between lat/long coordinates requires some funky spherical trigonometry. Not impossible, just CPU-intense.

The google earth maps (and google maps maps) are probably either a conic or a cylindric projection. Actually it probably depends on where on the planet you're looking and what the zoom range is. At any rate, the calculations for point to point distance are likely much easier than you'd think.

[colourbox]

Just remember that Latitude/Longitude coordinates are not on a Cartesian grid. For most applications we can assume that the north-south distance between two latitudes is constant (forgetting for a moment the Earth's oblateness.) However, the east-west distance between two longitudes ranges from 0km at the poles to about 111km at the equator.

So any calculations involving distances between lat/long coordinates requires some funky spherical trigonometry. Not impossible, just CPU-intense.

You might have misunderstood what I was originally getting at. I don't expect multi-point placement to place points exactly at precise locations the first time. I only suggested it as a way to drop multiple points in the same general area or along a general path so that they can be dragged to their final positions more quickly, instead of entering one by one.

Let's say I go to a park and I don't have a GPS unit. Instead of going to Google Earth, locating all the coordinates visually, and transcribing them into smugmug, why not just drop a gallery's 10 markers in the park in smugmaps and drag each of them to their photo locations. We'll drag this beach photo marker to the beach on the map here, one to the picnic table where we had lunch, one to the old fort...wow that was quick!

[pdvtokyo]

Andy
Thank you for the reply. Have followed your instructions to a T but still unable to get correct coordinates. I go into Edit Geography, type in lat/long details, hit Update but then do not get the Searching For/Lat/Long/Submit option on the right hand side of the page (as shown on your page). Instead I only get a thumbnail of the photo. Likewise, when I type in the 5 Coogan Boulevard 06355 address it takes me to NY but there is no option to submit nor does a place mark appear. I live in Tokyo but don't think that would be a problem... or would it?
Thank you

[bluemeanie]

Hi,

It was mentioned that bulk update of geography data was in the works sometime in 2005 but it hasn't made it yet. Is it likely that this feature will be implemented anytime soon? It's a bit of a PITA to hand edit each image.

[johndoc]

Thanks! I guess I must have been getting confused about the click language in the map. Apparently now that I "get" it, one click resets the marker and double-click re-centers the map.

However, I see now that I didn't state the problem very well. This is what is happening. If I'm in Edit Geography, and I want a rural spot in the Midwest, and I type in Lat. and Long., I have two choices for entering that data:
- I can click "Lookup Address." Unfortunately, that returns Address Not Found and the editable marker map centered on the default smugmug HQ locaiton, because I entered lat/long with the address blank. Manual map navigation across the country is necessary.
- My second choice is to click Update under lat/long, but the problem there is that it kicks back to the image, not to the editable marker map. Now the image is recorded with incorrect coordinates and I have to find another way to the editable map.

The way this must be done, since entering lat/long will not work, apparently, is to feed the address lookup with some kind of address than can be looked up and is close enough that you don't have to scroll the too far. Only then can the marker map can be edited in the correct region.

For similar reasons, if I choose Edit Geography for an image that already has lat/long entered, there's no button in there that will take me to that location on the map. The only way to see the editable map, that I know of, is to enter the closest address again, essentially starting over.

If I'm still missing something, fire away! :dunno

If I understand your problem, I think I stumbled into a solution. I found that if I type (or paste) the latitude and longitude into the address field, separated by a comma ("40.000,-75.000"), the lookup function dutifully goes to that location. Then you can fine tune via Google Maps. I have done this on files with previous lat and long by copying and pasting each in turn into the address field and manually adding the comma.

Copying the entire string before I click the lookup button is useful for sequentially entering geography information for a group of photos that are all near one another.

Hope this helps.

[macaddict]

Any word on batch updating the geotags? I see this was planned to be a feature last year.

I just went through adding data to one photo - in Korea, it doesn't take you to an address, so there is a need to just get it in the "ballpark." The 105 photos I just loaded from our vacation would be a great geotagging project, but I don't want to do each photo individually!

Thanks!

[Malte]

Bump.

Malte

[garyjwood]

Picasa 2.5 can batch geotag (even entire folders) using Google Earth. Both are free downloads.

[Malte]

Picasa 2.5 can batch geotag (even entire folders) using Google Earth. Both are free downloads.

Thanks Gary but I'm thinking of the pictures I already have on SM.

Malte

[gilbert]

Hi guys...I am just starting to put up a sample gallery and have noticed how frustrating it is to photo tools > edit geography for EACH photo...also does not remember location which would be a slight bit useful if you still have to go one-by-one...

Any idea if this feature is coming...and when?

Thanks

[docnesh]

Sorry, I was trying to sift through this thread, I hope there is some way to do this, I want to assign a location to a Gallery of pictures and not just to individual photogrpahs. For exampe, I want my alaskan photos to point to alaska and my carribean photos to reflect the Bahamas etc....

To be honest tagging long/lat info on a per picture basis is pretty useless unless you have GPS capability on your camera... Does anyone know of any third party apps that would allow me to fill the coordinates in the EXIF information automatically? Then I could just re-upload the pictures to smugmug if need be.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much.

Putting in the location information for every picture gets old fast! Will there ever be a way to do it in bulk, like when adding keywords...etc?

[garyjwood]

... Does anyone know of any third party apps that would allow me to fill the coordinates in the EXIF information automatically? Then I could just re-upload the pictures to smugmug if need be.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much.

I know of three effective solutions; there may be more. The first two are free, the third is from a smugmug business partner.

1. The WWMX utilities from Microsoft Research (a free download from http://wwmx.org) let you geotag photos from a GPS tracklog or by dropping them onto a Microsoft MapPoint Web Service map. The EXIF tags are updated automatically.

2. The new Picasa 2.5 lets you geotag photos with Google Earth. Both are free downloads. You then have to "save" or "export" the photos to update the EXIF tags.

3. The Photo Organizer in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 lets you geotag photos by dropping them onto a Yahoo map (which sucks outside the USA). You can then upload them automatically to smugmug.

[avekevin]

So there could be a confusion here:

"Bulk Geography" has been mentioned in several posts. One thing I wouldn't want is to apply the same lat/long to 25 pics in a gallery -- all of the pushpins on the map would be on top of one another!

Just clarifying one point....

I don't know if this request has gone anywhere, but it would be nice if there was an option to associate either individual pictures OR a gallery to locations. Since galleries often are associated with a single event or local, a single marker is sufficient.

Kevin

[jrcade]

Completely agree with Kevin in this one...many times you have a multitude of photos from the same location and would want to associate all of those shots with one lat/lon point. And it would be great if we could somehow add those points in bulk to all of the photos desired.

Looking forward this type of feature on SM!

[Allen]

Completely agree with Kevin in this one...many times you have a multitude of photos from the same location and would want to associate all of those shots with one lat/lon point. And it would be great if we could somehow add those points in bulk to all of the photos desired.

Looking forward this type of feature on SM! Be carefull what you ask for, there is currently a 150 picture limit in the map
feature. I think a better way would be to just geotag the featured photo of
each gallery. That photo should provide the interest to go to the gallery to
see more. This way from the "map this" button on your homepage all galleries,
up to 150, would be represented.

Just my $.02
Al

[encosion]

I've already uploaded all my photographs too... And after reading this thread I too think geotagging for GALLERIES would be a valid solution... Give them their own pin... Perhaps a different colour - although possibly unnecessarily confusing for visitors?

I have more than enough galleries to geotag... So geotagging individual photos is unfeasible really...

If GALLERY geotags were introduced, I'd like to see that the photos inside a geotagged gallery, when viewed from a search or keyword gallery, would have an option to show where on the map the photo was taken - even if it wasn't the exact spot because it only had a gallery geotag and not a photo geotag...

For my purposes, precision isn't critical...

[jrcade]

I have been using a Picasa 2.5/Google Earth combo to geotag all of my photos in preparation for use on SM and within SM's "Map This" feature, which I think is very nice and will grow into the future as a commonplace feature.

Two things in regards to this feature:

1) I feel that it is important to have a way to geotag any photo you want and as many as you want (Allen, where did the 150-photo limitation come from...did not see it on SM help anywhere) - not just galleries - because there are galleries you may have that have several photos in different locales. Just makes sense to me. A good example would be a gallery of photos from a trip to a few states - I'd want all those photos in the same gallery but, obviously, geotagged in the different spots I took them along the way.

2) Can someone explain the restriction which is in place regarding the "Map This" feature in password-protected and private galleries? Would just like to know why that is? In my case (and I'm sure for many other users as well), my password-protected galleries are ones that would generally have more photos (extending beyond my public galleries) that I'd want my family/friends to be able to locate in Google Earth. It's very disappointing that I can't have this feature enabled for those galleries for that purpose. I've never known Google to restrict folks on doing much of anything that makes sense and I would think this ability would do just that. :dunno

Thanks for any insight!

[Andy]

2) Can someone explain the restriction which is in place regarding the "Map This" feature in password-protected and private galleries? Would just like to know why that is?

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps
Gotcha: We cannot provide mapping for private and password-protected galleries without violating the terms of use of Google Maps.

[jrcade]

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps

Thanks, Andy...I had seen that text about the restriction, but what are the details of their policy? Just kinda weird to me that you would be able to do that in public galleries and not private...ultimately, they would get more users/click-throughs to Google Earth if it were allowed in protected galleries as well. Is it a technical policy/issue?

Thanks...

[PBolchover]

If you're a power user or pro, then it's probably possible to fake gallery geo-tagging by creating a new gallery just containing copies of the featured image for each of the galleries. When the images are clicked on, a javascript function could detect the image URL and redirect the browser to the relevant gallery.


I use a similar scheme to create gallery redirects (search dgrin for the code), based on the "vanity URL" script.

[Hanny]

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps
Hey all... first post here. Got a question about the Google Maps feature. I have nothing but private galleries. So none of my geo tags should show up on the map. But some do. And some don't. I don't understand why.

Anyone know why only some of the tags show up (when they probably all shouldn't. Or should?) (edit: I only have about 10 tags showing. Definitely not near the 150 limit.)

On another note... WOW, am I blown away by SmugMug. Easily one of my favorite sites ever! I do nothing but sing its praises to my friends stuck using other sites. SM keeps your originals, no ads, nearly unlimited uploads and viewing and storage, etc etc etc etc... :bow:bow:bow You guys have a user for life here! Makes me want to get more into photography! (Which brings up another question I'll post elsewhere -- recommending a good digi cam that doesn't give a ton of red eye like my pain in the a-- Sony T9.)

Thanks again for the help on the maps question, and for a great, great service!!!

[Andy]

Hey all... first post here. Got a question about the Google Maps feature. I have nothing but private galleries. So none of my geo tags should show up on the map. But some do. And some don't. I don't understand why.

Anyone know why only some of the tags show up (when they probably all shouldn't. Or should?) (edit: I only have about 10 tags showing. Definitely not near the 150 limit.)

On another note... WOW, am I blown away by SmugMug. Easily one of my favorite sites ever! I do nothing but sing its praises to my friends stuck using other sites. SM keeps your originals, no ads, nearly unlimited uploads and viewing and storage, etc etc etc etc... :bow:bow:bow You guys have a user for life here! Makes me want to get more into photography! (Which brings up another question I'll post elsewhere -- recommending a good digi cam that doesn't give a ton of red eye like my pain in the a-- Sony T9.)

Thanks again for the help on the maps question, and for a great, great service!!!
Hi, and thanks for the kind words. You must have some photos public? Or did have? That would explain it.

[Hanny]

Hi, and thanks for the kind words. You must have some photos public? Or did have? That would explain it.

I used "SendToSmugMug" to upload them to a new, private album. Tags showed up on the map without me changing the private flag.

I then added lat/long tags to photos in two older, private albums, and one showed up. The other didn't.

I tried making all the albums public (which made them all pop up on the map) then private again. And only those few or so from before stayed on the map.


Weird, right? Eh, it's not that big of a deal, really. Just a curiosity.

[chuckice]

Any update on this feature? Anyone know of a tool that uses the Smugmug API to update lat/long for all photos in a gallery? I have a ton of images that I've uploaded in the past that I now finally have the coords for after munging all the geo data.

[Malte]

Be carefull what you ask for, there is currently a 150 picture limit in the map
feature. I think a better way would be to just geotag the featured photo of
each gallery. That photo should provide the interest to go to the gallery to
see more. This way from the "map this" button on your homepage all galleries,
up to 150, would be represented.

Just my $.02
Al

Each photo doesn't neccessarily have to generate one pin on the map, that can be restricted to one pin per containing gallery. If the gallery should contain photos with different geotags a median value can be generated. This could be useful if you have many photos from e.g. a city where all photos have individual geotags and the gallery would get an approximate tag for the city.

Malte

[encosion]

Each photo doesn't neccessarily have to generate one pin on the map, that can be restricted to one pin per containing gallery. If the gallery should contain photos with different geotags a median value can be generated. This could be useful if you have many photos from e.g. a city where all photos have individual geotags and the gallery would get an approximate tag for the city.

Malte

Sounds like it could be dangerous... But I like the principal! I think that perhaps we should be given a choice on how we'd like to use the geo-tagging... Make it switchable in the control panel... [1] Galleries are Geo-tagged, individual photos are not... The Gallery feature photo is used on the map... [2] Individual photos are Geo-tagged... Something alone those lines...

I know I'd go for tagging Galleries myself... Because [a] that's how I organise my photos anyway... And [b], because I'm not interested in being too precise with my Geo-tagging - not until I get a DSLR with inbuilt GPS!

[Malte]

Bump...? :hide

[pjp]

Bump...? :hide
Another bump. I'd be fine tagging a gallery at a time.

I'm also curious about the reason for the limit of 150 displayed on the map. Is that just a practical consideration?

[Allen]

Another bump. I'd be fine tagging a gallery at a time.

I'm also curious about the reason for the limit of 150 displayed on the map. Is that just a practical consideration?
150's been there from go. I try to tag only a representative photo from each
gallery otherwise a new gallery could overload the map and not be
representative of your site.

[ChibiPhotography]

This will be coming soon.

Any update on how soon bulk geotagging will be implemented?

[shrekie]

Hi Andy,

From what I've read, it appears that there has been no implementation of a "bulk" geo-tag feature yet that addresses all the issues.

I have a suggestion that I think may work well. I agree with you that it would be silly to clutter a space with a large number of drop pins. To reduce this clutter, what if it was possible to have one pin per gallery, and then when the pin is clicked on, a thumbnail appears as it does in the current version. But rather than just showing a single image, the box has simple arrows back and forwards to allow you to preview thumbnails from the rest of the gallery. Ideally, if nothing was clicked, it would just play your entire gallery as a slideshow within the thumbnail.

This way, as John has also suggested, it only takes one drop pin to feature each gallery, but within that drop-pin, viewers can preview the entire gallery via the thumbnails. Obviously, clicking on the individual thumbnail would lead them directly to that photo in the gallery.

Does this sound like a viable option?

Thanks,

Nelson

So there could be a confusion here:

"Bulk Geography" has been mentioned in several posts. One thing I wouldn't want is to apply the same lat/long to 25 pics in a gallery -- all of the pushpins on the map would be on top of one another!

Just clarifying one point....

[MrChristopher]

I'd like to throw my name in the hat for a bulk geotagging feature. In response to the comments about multiple photos against one pin; I had my camera set up on a tripod and took a out 89 photos so that would actually make sense for me.

[xylo04]

Bump. This feature request has been out for 4 years, apparently. How hard is this?

This seems like it would be very easy to implement a crude version of this. Basically it's just a copy of the Many Photos> caption/keyword page, but instead would have lat and long boxes. Still not perfect, but good enough for me. That would be much easier than going into each photo and entering the lat/long on one page per photo.

And some of the previous posts sound good too; assigning one lat/long to the entire gallery would save lots of time for very localized galleries.

[encosion]

Bump. This feature request has been out for 4 years, apparently. How hard is this?
...

And some of the previous posts sound good too; assigning one lat/long to the entire gallery would save lots of time for very localized galleries. Yeah, bring it on already... Seriously

[mchk]

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps

Andy,
I'm also curious as to why this is and whether anything has changed in the Google terms & conditions in the last few years? Clearly I do not know or need to know any agreements you have made with Google, but I do note that the standard terms and conditions state that " You may require users to log in to your Maps API Implementation if you do not require users to pay a fee.". This sounds like it should allow the use with password protected galleries as anyone with the password can access them without paying a fee.

Regards

Mike

[Andy]

Bump. This feature request has been out for 4 years, a

The Google won't let us per terms. We'll ask again.

[mchk]

The Google won't let us per terms. We'll ask again.
Thanks, that'd be great.

Mike

[bheller]

Probably too soon to bump the Bulk Edit - Geography request, but I'd like to ask - is there an easy way to erase geography info I have put into smugmug photos?

Before I realized the map would only show 200 pictures, I uploaded many galleries of pictures, many with close to 200 photos, all geotagged in Lightroom. So now I want to take the lat/long info off of all but a few pictures in each gallery. Other than uploading all the pictures again, after stripping the geo info out, or going through photos one by one, is there a way to zero them out? Or do I wait for the Bulk Geography feature and just put in zeros then?

Thanks,
AtlantaSports.smugmug.com

[coldclimb]

Probably too soon to bump the Bulk Edit - Geography request, but I'd like to ask - is there an easy way to erase geography info I have put into smugmug photos?

Before I realized the map would only show 200 pictures, I uploaded many galleries of pictures, many with close to 200 photos, all geotagged in Lightroom. So now I want to take the lat/long info off of all but a few pictures in each gallery. Other than uploading all the pictures again, after stripping the geo info out, or going through photos one by one, is there a way to zero them out? Or do I wait for the Bulk Geography feature and just put in zeros then?

Thanks,
AtlantaSports.smugmug.com

I'm in the same boat, although I'll probably just go back through and delete them... it's only a few hours. :D What would be better though is to be able to have more than 200 pins on the map. Is that a possibility at all?