Photo maps/slideshows for websites

[simon_j]

I thought I’d share a few of the photo mapping websites and programs I’ve been experimenting with over the last few months. If you’re bored with traditional website galleries they could be of interest.

Flickrvision – http://flickrvision.com/maps/show_3d 

This site is pulling ‘geo tagged’ flickr photos in near real time and displaying them on a flash world map from Poly9 http://freeearth.poly9.com . If you know a little bit about html/javascript and read the API documentation it’s reasonably easy to replicate it to just display your own flickr photos.



Jet Photo Studio – http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/home 

An easy to use desktop application to generate a Google map gallery that you can embed in your own website.

Example New York gallery –



Trippermap – http://www.flickrmap.com 

Another flash based gallery with a simple but good built in slideshow



Popfly – http://www.popfly.com 

A new Microsoft application that’s currently being developed. Amongst many other things it allows 2D/3D virtual earth galleries to be generated without needing to know the finer details. It’s basically a drag and drop application.



Example New York Virtual earth –

[2jamesl]

Thanks for sharing, although the first one does seem a bit strange, apparently the hottest place on earth at the moment is 34 degrees celcius??

[_dobbo_]

These look good, if only I ever travelled anywhere interesting!

[spitfire-ian]

Looked at JetPhoto Studio and thought "that's the one for me!", downloaded it, found I needed something called JetPhoto Server so downloaded that and stuffed it on my website. Now what? Can't get the bloody thing to connect or do anything. Anyone have experience using this program at all? I'll post something on the computer forum too.

[simon_j]

I just downloaded and installed "JetPhoto Studio for Windows" on my PC. From memory, as it's not in front of me right now, the way I think I do it is to click on the create new album and drag and drop the photos into the JetPhoto screen. Then Geotag the locations on the photos as required and save. You should have a directory on your desktop that has all of the HTML code required. Just ftp it to your site and open the index.html file in your browser.

I must admit I hadn't seen the Jet Photo Server but I don't think I need it as I'm happy to ftp the HTML out of JetPhoto Studio up to my website.

Simon.

[spitfire-ian]

simon_j said:

I just downloaded and installed "JetPhoto Studio for Windows" on my PC. From memory, as it's not in front of me right now, the way I think I do it is to click on the create new album and drag and drop the photos into the JetPhoto screen. Then Geotag the locations on the photos as required and save. You should have a directory on your desktop that has all of the HTML code required. Just ftp it to your site and open the index.html file in your browser.

I must admit I hadn't seen the Jet Photo Server but I don't think I need it as I'm happy to ftp the HTML out of JetPhoto Studio up to my website.

Simon.

Using JetPhoto Studio is not a problem and I'm quite happy doing it the way you describe, it's the way it interacts with JetPhoto Server to create albums automatically on line which update as you update photos in your library which I really want to get to work.