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Even before we started geocaching as a hobby, I have liked the idea of geolocating our photos in Flickr. I try to do it when I can, but even with Flickr's mapping features it can be a time consuming task. Now that we are geocaching and have invested in a handheld GPS unit, I've discovered a few neat tools for automatically geotagging images using tracking data from our GPS. Of course, I'm not saying that managing our pictures isn't already a full time job, but some of these tools do take the tediousness out of the process and I'm more likely to tag and geotag our images from now on.

We tend to take most of our pictures while out geocaching anymore. That's not to say non-geocachers can't do this, you would just need a handheld GPS unit with tracking turned on while you're out taking pictures. Naturally ours is usually turned on since we're hunting geocaches, but I would certainly consider taking ours along with us if we were sightseeing somewhere and I wanted to save our locations to our photos. I will add some of my favorite geocaching tools to the end for anybody interested, and show a few examples of how I've been using the data and pictures that we do have.

It seems I was correct about my Greasemonkey/Flickr Scripts for geotagging. I went over to the GeoTagging Flickr group on Flickr to see if anybody else was having the same problem, seems they are. It has to do with the newer version of Greasemonkey. I did find a solution through the group though, apparently using Flickrmap and Google Earth, you can get relatively the same results as the other scripts. At first I was a little put off by this solution because Flickrmap is not a free service. I didn't want to geotag all my images on Flickrmap or use their slideshow thingy (you can get all that for free using Flickr anyway), all I wanted was the plain old Geotags for my images. After perusing the posts on the Flickr group, though, I did see this link about using Flickrmap with Google Earth, after I clicked on the link I realized that this was a free service so I set it up using Google Earth and you don't have to join Flickrmap. If you've never set up a new network link in Google Earth before, it's a little interesting at first, but it's amazing the cool things you can do with Google Earth once you got a few in there. I have another one that shows the 50 closest geotagged images directly in Google Earth, no matter where I am in the world.

The link back to Flickrmap didn't work the way it should have (it didn't load my photos from Flickr for geotagging), but I did get my geotags in the end and that's all I really wanted. The bubble in Google Earth does give the geotags when you find a location, which you could copy and paste back to Flickr. This is much easier than trying to determine your geo position from Google Earth, which is not copyable.

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It's a bummer, but none of my Greasemonkey scripts for geotagging seem to be working anymore. I've also noticed that my Netflix Queue Greasemonkey script is not working. I wonder if it's because I upgraded Firefox which forced me to upgrade Greasemonkey last month. I had one script that let me get geotags from Google Maps and another that added links from Flickr. The Flickr links are there, but they don't do anything when I click on them.

Some scripts work fine, I hope I can figure the others out because Greasemonkey is one of them extensions that once I started using it, I realize I can't live without it.

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