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October 4, 2006

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Flickr Maps

If, like me, you have been tagging your pics with location data for a while (a practice called Geotagging), then you will be happy to learn that Flickr recently released a new geotagging feature allowing you to place all your pics onto a world map.
However, the location data of my pics is embedded in their EXIF tags by the mobile phone I use to take the pics and the new feature doesn't read them from there, in the case of pictures added to Flickr before this new feature was released.
Thankfully, Sam Judson has released GeoReTagr, a little script that will import geotagged pics' EXIF data into the new location fields that Flickr uses to place the pics onto the map.
Thank you Sam!!
Here are my geomapped pictures on an UGLY Yahoo map!

UPDATE:
aemkei has released a delicious little bookmarklet that lets you tag any pic onto the nicer Google maps, from within any of your flick photo pages, without the need of an external script or application etc... (and it works with most browsers) and it also lets any person view your pics mapped on a nice Google map when they visit you Flickr pages or even as a standalone version:
here are my geomapped pictures on Google Maps with a delicious interface!

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November 13, 2005

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Migration from Gallery to Flickr

For people looking to transfer their photos from Gallery to Flickr, I have spent $200 for you.
A nice fellow I met on Flickr, Myrmi, made a nice little Gallery2Flickr script for me. And I have just recently finished uploading all my pictures to Flickr.
So here, I share the script with you.

Myrmi's great Gallery2Flickr script:
Upload it into the "albums" folder (the one with all your albums) and edit the variables at the top of go.php.
You will of course need a Flickr account (preferably a pro account if you plan on transfering more than 3 albums)
You will need an API key, which you can apply for here. Once you've edited go.php, just browse to the go.php file in your browser and everything will work.
The script:

requires FTP access
doesn't require access to command line.
lists all your albums and you can upload them one by one.
will not reupload pics that were already uploaded in case of crash or else.
only uploads supported file formats on Flickr
puts all your pics in Flickr Sets named after the albums in Gallery.
preserve all captions
saves your keywords in Gallery as tags in Flickr
saves your pictures' comments in Gallery into your captions in Flickr
preserve chronological order.

Works with Gallery 1.x I guess.
The script uses the PHPflickr library for this, which is included in the download. I also donated part of the $200 to Dan.

NOTE: This script is given as is. I am not responsible is smth goes wrong. It transfered my 3500+ pics without a hitch so it has all the chances to work for you too. I cannot troubleshoot nor modify this script for you, so please do not make any requests in the comments for that.

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November 8, 2005

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New Flickr Galleries

Today, I reactivated the photo galleries /AD page. All links now go to Flickr. And I am really liking it. It's so powerful, the slideshows are a devil invention to make you cry in front of your pics...

There is still some cleanup to be done, more than 1300 pics without any tags, many tags to delete or rewrite, but the essential is here: my 3600+ pics of the past 3.5 yrs and all my previous comment/tags (from my previous galleries) were saved and transfered automatically to Flickr thanks to this great script.
And here is the RSS feed.

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September 17, 2005

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Upgrading Photo Galleries

Following recent hackings into my photo galleries, I have decided to do a little clean up and upgrade here and there.

Updated: Actually not upgrading to Gallery 2, my current Gallery software is so heavily customized that it would take me months to upgrade and make the same mods again... And there isn't a moblog module for G2 yet.
So despite wanting to keep my pics on my server, I have decided to finally switch to Flickr!! I mean, all my friends are there anyway!

200$ for the first person coming up with a script using the flickr API to import all my 3500+ pics from Gallery to Flickr.

It needs to:
- put all my pics in Flickr sets named after the current albums in Gallery.
- transform all Gallery keywords into Flickr tags and preserve them for all pics.
- preserve all captions.
- transfer current comments into the captions on Flickr.
- preserve chronological order.

Should be a server side script I guess. If possible would do the work on its own, in one shot, not activated album per album.
I couldn't find any on the web, what I found was many people waiting for such script... Flickr, would you hack that for us, please free us!!

Deadline: 30th of September.

Any takers?

Update 2005-09-27:
We almost have a winner! -> Flickr Forum thread

Update 2005-10:
We definitely have a winner.
I shared the $200 between the coder and the maker of some libraries he used.

Update 2005-11:
It's live. Thanks!!

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