ZoneTag Photos – from Yahoo Research Berkeley Quite nice this and works with many Series 60 Nokia phones – making it much easier to tag photos from your phone, complete with geotagging…
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Shame it’s USA only for the time being. Is that a technical issue or a legal one?
Yes, I have the same complaint “ZoneTag is only available for use by US users.”
;-(
Could you exercise your power and ask to deploy at least an Europe-enabled version as well? 😉
I don’t think it’s either. There’s no reason they couldn’t do city geolocation based on cell metadata. Admittedly the zip code database in the US is easier to come by than postcode data for the UK, for example, but that’s no excuse. Postcodes are probably an unwarranted level of accuracy.
Use Meaning instead. Open source, more capable (it looks at local Bluetooth devices too) and works outside the US. Plus it’s not quite as self-promoting in its tagging (although that’s arguably a bad thing). (Or, if you must, look at Shozu.) http://meaning.3xi.org/documents/About+Merkitys-Meaning
I tried both Meaning AND this Yahoo one. Meaning wouldn’t upload whereas the Yahoo one froze my phone. Sucks 🙁
5 replies on “Links for 2006-02-28”
Shame it’s USA only for the time being. Is that a technical issue or a legal one?
Yes, I have the same complaint “ZoneTag is only available for use by US users.”
;-(
Could you exercise your power and ask to deploy at least an Europe-enabled version as well? 😉
I don’t think it’s either. There’s no reason they couldn’t do city geolocation based on cell metadata. Admittedly the zip code database in the US is easier to come by than postcode data for the UK, for example, but that’s no excuse. Postcodes are probably an unwarranted level of accuracy.
Use Meaning instead. Open source, more capable (it looks at local Bluetooth devices too) and works outside the US. Plus it’s not quite as self-promoting in its tagging (although that’s arguably a bad thing). (Or, if you must, look at Shozu.)
http://meaning.3xi.org/documents/About+Merkitys-Meaning
I tried both Meaning AND this Yahoo one. Meaning wouldn’t upload whereas the Yahoo one froze my phone. Sucks 🙁
Yeah,the yahoo one froze my phone as well.