Help illustrate the Social Atlas on Flickr
We’re very happy to see a new feature just launched on Flickr this week that works with information from Dopplr’s Social Atlas. When you take a picture of a great restaurant, hotel or other place to explore, you can now add a special ‘machine tag’ when you upload it to Flickr. Within minutes, Flickr’s computers will talk to Dopplr’s computers and figure out the place you mean, adding a direct link with the correct title on the relevant pages.
You can find out the machine tag to use by checking the Flickr sidebar on any Dopplr place page, as illustrated here:
screenshot by moleitau.
screenshot by moleitau.
You can read the full in-depth details on the Flickr Code Blog.
Rather than just manually tagging, I’m thinking that there could be enough meta data present to semi-automate this.
Imagine for instance, if the Flickr photo has geotags and/or has tags that either identify the location and place. It would be nice if there was say a Greasemonkey script that one could click that can use that information to look up the correct eat/stay/explore tag. Having something like this would also probably increase the likelihood of someone tagging this for the social atlas.
Just something to think about.
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