Nokia N95 Photos on Flickr - #1 Nokia device in use

Did you know you can view stats and photos on flickr that have been captured using Nokia N95 - see http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/ - The N95 is the #1 camera out of 46 Nokia devices being used by flickr users.

Share your mobile photos online with Share Online

Share Online (Beta) is a free app from S60 enabling simple and fast access to your online photo sharing resources. You can control the file size and quality of your photos and video, add text to your posts, and browse to your page to see how it looks once you`re done. See http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/shareonline

Nokia World 2007 (Amsterdam) Slide show

Some images captured at Nokia World in Amsterdam...




Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Geolocated photos into Google Maps or Google earth via Geo-RSS with ease

This may be old-school for some of you, others will appreciate this simple tip. All you need here is a Nokia N95 or other GPS-enabled device, some geotagged photos, a flickr account, a geo-RSS feed, and a Google account (optional) - read on for this simple GeoRSS photo feed, google map tutorial. If you use a GPS-enabled cameraphone (like the Nokia N95, N82, Nokia Navigator etc...) then you can easily post your photos to flickr or other online services (use a tool like Shozu to help with this). But did you know that Flickr creates a Geo-RSS feed from your photo stream? Even better, you can simply copy and paste your Geo-RSS feed location into the google maps search bar and voila... your photos are now available via Google maps to share with others, save to your mymaps or whatever the heck you want to do. Simply look at the bottom of your flickr page, you'll see options like RSS, GeoFeed and KML - yes you can easily open your photos in Google Earth too with a flickr provided KML file!

For users of Google, if you save your custom map in your MyMaps you'll have the ability to easily share your map feeds and you can even embed them in a webpage or blog.

Go to your flickr page, scroll to the bottomcopy the GeoRss feed url
jump back to google maps
paste the RSS feed url into the search bar and click "search maps"
click the "Link to this page" you can grab a link or embed the map into your webpage.

The link to this page provides a link back to Google Maps where you can view the photos

Selecting the Paste html code into your webpage is simple and displayed below - this is a live Google Map pulling my geotagged photos from the GeoRSS feed via Flickr.

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useful links:
www.google.com/maps
www.flickr.com
www.shozu.com
www.georss.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS
Yahoo! Maps Web Services - GeoRSS v2 Reference

Looking for images from the symbian smartphoneshow?

Rafe and the gang have been snapping photos and posting them to flickr... enjoy a few images from the UK and the 2007 smartphoneshow...

www.flickr.com More Flickr photos tagged with smartphoneshow07

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Share your content in a Mobile friendly manner with MOSH

A tip... Have you MOSHed yet? MOSH (stands for mobilize and share) is an application just out from Nokia. It enables users to explore and share mobile friendly content. The app is optimized for mobile use although you can use it with your PC as well very comfortably. Simply create a profile and then upload photos, videos, games, documents, applications (i.e. demo ware) etc... its an awesome way to share your content with a HUGE community of mobile users. At first you may wonder why bother, although if you've ever struggled to get data onto your phone you may like this one. For example, you could create a PDF or Word version of your resume and add it as one of your documents.. then while on the road if you ever want your resume, want to send it to someone etc... you can simply send it to your phone or anyone's device for that matter... its very cool! MOSH is free and you don't have to have a NOKIA smartphone to use it.. any web-enabled device that can hit the Internet will work just fine. Check out my MOSH at http://mosh.nokia.com/user/gisuser

Event of Interest - Nokia N95 Photo Gallery Exhibitio

Thursday, 04 October 2007 - The Gallery features images shot entirely with the Nokia N95 multi-media computer by photographer and artist Henry Reichhold, as part of the Reflect series at the Royal Albert Hall.

The Connected Worlds project will create two exhibitions, one at the Royal Albert Hall and a virtual exhibition on the Nokia Island in Second Life (www.secondlife.com).

The photographs feature nine cities across five continents; London, Paris, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Cape Town, Singapore and Hong Kong.

The exhibition has 2 Free viewing days at Albert Hall, October 29 and November 3 - see more at http://www.reichholdarts.com

See also http://www.royalalberthall.com/

Nokia N95 Customers Will Receive a Free Version of SlingPlayer Mobile

This out of the slingbox camp today.. sling hits the N95 - Nokia N95 Customers Will Receive a Free Version of SlingPlayer Mobile. For a limited time Sling Media is offering Nokia N95 current and future handset owners in the U.S. a discount on Slingbox AV. In addition, all U.S. Nokia N95 customers will receive a free version of SlingPlayer Mobile (a $29.99 value). Complete details can be found at www.slingmedia.com/go/nokia.

Google gpicsync - embed location information in your photos

Here's an interesting application from Google - GPicSync automatically inserts location in your photos metadata so they can also be used with any 'geocode aware' application like Picasa/Google Earth, Flickr, loc.alize.us, etc.

Features:

automatically geocode your photos (in the EXIF header)
use a GPS tracklog in the GPX format or NMEA format (multiple selection possible)
Support elevation data if present in the tracklog
create a Google Earth KML file to directly visualize the geocoded photos and track in Google Earth
create a Google Maps file to publish your pictures and track on the web
Automatically associate audio or video files in Google Earth and Google Maps
create a Google Earth KMZ file (containing your geolocalized pictures and tracklog).
add additional geonames and 'geotagged' metadata (for automatic tagging in Flickr for example) and create an automatic IPTC caption
manually write latitude/longitude in a picture EXIF or a selection of photos
handy tools integrated (Time correction tool, EXIF reader, GPX inspector, rename pictures with date/location,)
supports Jpeg pictures and main RAW files format
See http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

Share your Geotagged photos with GlobalMotion

GlobalMotion has just launched a new Wiki focused on real world places: www.globalmotion.com. GlobalMotion has focused on making the content creation process easy and fun, using the millions of geotagged photos out there on the web in a useful & fun way. This could be a very cool way to use and share your geotagged Nokia N95 GPS tagged photos.

Some details on the app... GlobalMotion was started by Joost Schreve. Joost is an avid travel enthusiast. Joost hitchhiked on a sail boat from The Philippines to Hong Kong and then climbed with his skis above 8,000 meters in the Himalayas. He has always been into technology so he is marrying his two passions with his websites he started. A few other advisors to the company include: Hap Klopp, founder of North Face outdoor clothing and gear, as well as Per Enge who is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University.

Geotagging your flickr photos with Yahoo! zonetag and locr - a short tutorial

ok... more on the geotagging photos sent to flickr via shozu and my Nokia N95 GPS-enabled smartphone. I've recently been doing some research to figure out exactly how to geotag my photos, and get them up on flickr then view on a map. From the outside looking it one would think, "no problemmo", however, things are not often as simple as they would seem. Luckily there's a couple of good third party apps that work very well. Those of you that depend on out of the box functionality that wil accomplish this will have to try again!

My research has led me to believe the following:
- there's much confusion out there about this.
- it's a total pain in the arse to accomplish using the Nokia N95 out of the box
- it's not as simple as blogs and other write ups lead you to believe
- many people seem to be having trouble with many different aspects of this.
- some people seem to be experiencing difficulties uploading via shozu from the Nokia N95 - I have yet to see any issues with this.
- apparently you can tag photos from N95 directly with GPS coords if you run sprt tracker or load the maps application - I've yet to be able to accomplish this seemingly simple task.

Enter Yahoo! Research labs zonetag and locr. Zonetag from Yahoo! has just recently come out with a version that supports Symbian S60 3rd edition devices (Nokia N80, N95, 6110 etc...). The application is very simple to use and it works. Simply install zonetag, setup your preferences (I'm still tweaking these) load the app, connect the GPS to grab your fix, take a photo, upload to flickr... it's as simple as that! Once on flickr your photos will have a hyperlink to map the photo and the coordinates will display when you view the photo on a map. So far I've had excellent results with this application.

Locr (www.locr.com) operates in a similar manner. Install the app, setup an account, connect to GPS to get a fix, snap a photo, upload to flickr and to locr if you wish. Your photos are maintained in a locr account and from the mobile device you can also view your photos or photos that are near you. Once feature I'm not big on is that the application takes over the camera and you don't seem to get the full functionality from your device. This contrasts with Zonetag where you use the camera in the same mode that you normally would with your device.

Please note, you should have an all you can eat data plan to use these applications otherwise the results (and your next phone bill) could be scary! I use shozu for uploads normall, however, it seems that when using zonetag or locr you are actually bypassing the shozu functionality... I'm not worried as I can use al teh data I want. Stay tuned for more on these apps. Overall, I give locr a 3.5 out of 5, zonetag gets 4.5 out of 5!

Related weblinks:

• my locr and zonetag photos on flickr
• zonetag
• locr

Flickr account holders can easily sign up for a zonetag key and start using it

Photos uploaded to flickr using zonetag - the title is automatically loaded with your location - notice the "map" link

The photo appears exactly where I took it on the map!

Zonetag GPS connect function on N95 (left) and locr application as seen on the device (right)

Yahoo! research zonetag for flickr now supports Symbian S60 3 (ie. Nokia N95)

Great news.. I just noticed that Yahoo! research labs popular zonetag application now supports symbian OS S60 3 devices (like the 6110 and N95).. this is awesome if infact it works! Given that Nokia's interface for actually getting GPS tags written to the photo EXIF totally sucks, this may be a very welcomed addition... stay tuned. One note though... I just tried getting the app via txt message download and the form doesn't seem to be working for t-mobile numbers.. stay tuned. See http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com

A little help on GPS tagging photos from the Nokia N95

A little help from any Nokia N95 users out there?? I've been dabbling a bit with the N95 trying to get geolocation elements associated with photos... sureley this has to be the most desired feature of this phone! Apparently Shozu does indeed support this functionality, however, I can't seem to get GPS coordinates written to the EXIF associated with images. Does Shozu do this to anyone's knowledge?? I've tried getting a gPS fix, then snapping images, however, no GPS coords seem to be getting tagged to the image. Can anyone shed a bit of light on this for me? I found this statement on the Shozu forum... "I've added putting the GPS data into the EXIF of JPEGs as a possible future feature for ShoZu" so I have to assume that its not currently doable. " Source: Forum post titled "Nokia N95 - GPS Support?"
Kudos to Stefan over at Ogle earth blog for a great write-up on his experiences tagging his photos from a recent mountain trek. He goes to great lengths describing how he tags his images, uploads to flickr, then streams to Google earth.