Flickr and geotags

[gnirtS]

Has anyone used software to pre-tag a photos EXIF data with geo data and have flickr automatically pick it up? Im trying but have problems.

Firstly i HAVE set the "auto import location data" box in my account and have checked its ticked.

Im using Geosetter for windows (http://www.geosetter.de/en/) to tag the photos using google maps and it appears to be working.

For example my photos have the keywords:

geo:lon=-3.20585936; geo:lat=51.78422494; geotagged;

added to them by the program. After uploading to flickr though these photos aren't tagged at all and i have to still do it manually via the map. On looking at the photos it IS recognising the tags are there as "Machine tags" field appears and clicking on it shows them.

Any idea why this isnt working? Is flickr expecting or looking for a different format on the geodata?

Reason for doing this in advance is (i) GPS track logger and geoseter will save me lots of work and (ii) Flickrs yahoo maps are utterly worthless for lots of areas anyway and horribly inaccurate or lacking in enough detail to place.

To highlight the problem this entire set (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitcomberd/sets/72157612958429492/) from today is tagged but not picked up.

FWIW i tried the flickr desktop uploader (new one) and the web one.

[erkkimies]

Hmm i haven't had these kind of problems using the same software , you should probably try ask their support what they think , i bet they have answer in hand if some one else have been having these problems as wellhttp://sharepix4all.info/images/udas89hdusajd0sa/smiley.jpg

[DunnoWhen]

It's not just the GPS data that you are missing but all Exif data.

What method are you using to save your jpegs?

Using "Save for Web" in Photoshop is known to strip exif data.

[gnirtS]

All the EXIF data is there. Flickr shows it and also recognises "machine tags" with the lat/long in so the data is all getting to Flickr but flickr appears to not be parsing or using it at all.

(Flickr strips EXIF on all on upload but stuffs it into a databse)

[DunnoWhen]

Sorry, I'm not seeing any exif data in the files.

I've tried at each level of image but with the same result.


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[gnirtS]

You wont unless you go for the original file. Flickr strips the EXIF from all except the original size file (and stores it separately). Its only preserved on the original image.

For example on the above image this direct link to the original (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/3223925373_2986388f8a_o.jpg) works.

If you go to the photos main page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitcomberd/3223925373/) you can see the EXIF on the right hand side under "Tags" and "Machine tags".