Flickr adds Geotagging option

Posted on August 29, 2006 by egordon

This new feature from flickr just continues the trend towards emplacing data.  Geotagging is just another form of organizing data – using the world as file cabinet.  It takes the abstraction of maps, or what I’ve called metageography, and replaced it with a sense of locality.  It’s like always knowing where that scrap of paper is.

Link: Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection.

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This blog documents my research on the growing importance of location, place and space in networked social media. I'm an assistant professor of new media at Emerson College in Boston. Colin Rhinesmith, a graduate student at Emerson, is a major contributor to this blog.
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