Alex King has announced a re-design of the Share Icon Project website, adding a showcase along similar lines to that added to the Geotag Icon Project some days earlier. The Share Icon was inspired by the Feed Icon and OPML Icon. The new Geotag Icon, likewise related conceptually and visually, is not listed as a peer but is nevertheless enjoying a strong show of early developer and user support reflecting its obvious utility.
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iCab—the Internet taxi for your Mac—now sports the Geotag Icon. Alexander Clauss' latest beta (4.0.1b39) enables the status bar Geotag Icon when metadata tags are detected in the page being viewed, generating a pop-up that will plot the geotagged location using Google Maps. iCab has a number of other noteworthy features, including full compatibility with the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress (unlike Safari or Firefox as of this writing). David has some screen captures on his site.
This article considers geotagging photos from a Mac perspective, looking at automatic and manual methods, and explaining terms such as data loggers, track points, waypoints, and routes. It lists OS X software options for connecting to data loggers, converting track log formats, geo-locating photos, and writing that data to EXIF for both raw and JPEG images. It also covers the importance of time synchronization, what you can do with geotagged photos, workflow, choosing a data logger and controlling it from your Mac.
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Geotagging (or geocoding if you prefer) is the act of associating your content (blog posts, photos, feeds, etc.) with a geographic location (e.g. via latitude and longitude co-ordinates). Thus tagged authors can "mash" their content together with the likes of Google Maps, or the Flickr Map if photography is your thing. However, co-ordinates are typically encoded within metadata (or microformat) tags making them visible to machines but hidden from people. We have de facto web standard icons to help identify feeds, OPML, and sharing—so why not for geotagged content?
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Ngã Tãonga o Aotearoa is a multi-platform set of 5 icons from Manchester-based designer Mischa McLachlan.
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Cian Walsh at Afterglow recently spent a year working in New Zealand. He decided to commemorate his stay by turning some kiwi icons into, well, icons.
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