Virtual travel: photo-cartographic-mashup'y
In the summer, most people are in one of three states: planning a vacation, on vacation, or returning from vacation. There are truth and those who have only to dream about vacation. However, the idea of ​​combining maps from Google or Yahoo with photo sites is uniquely useful for all categories, tying each picture to the place in which it is made - those who are going to travel can pre-orient themselves on the spot, those who return can get a photo route of their trip, and who only wants to go somewhere: see photos of the desired place. Below we will talk about the most popular mashup in this area.
The advantage of flickr is a huge user base and photo, so even the not so widely advertised section Explore-> World Map contains a huge number of photos tied to specific points.
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Maps are used, of course, from Yahoo, but this does not detract from the value of this service. Among the photos is full of pictures like “I am on the background ...”, however, the impression of a place is perhaps the most complete.
The uniqueness of this service is in addition to the maps and photos also the video and texts describing a specific place. We can say that it mashup 5 services at once: Google Maps, Flickr, Youtube, Wikimapia and Placeopedia. The last 2 are responsible for a bunch of cards with articles from Wikipedia.
There is a lot of video even from places that are not very popular, but sometimes there are not enough texts, nevertheless, it makes it possible to create a complete impression of the city or region.
Panoramio
Panoramio, whose views of American cities were integrated into Goggle Maps as Streets View last week, meanwhile has a large database of photos from around the world.
Basically, these are specific photographs from art and tourist albums, which do not give a real idea, however, strict filtering and linking to geographic places and buildings leaves practically no room for typical tourist photos, which have already been discussed above.
Pixagogo would be no different from other services if it were not for the focus on creating custom albums. If you decide to structure your pictures after the trip and present them to your relatives and friends in a cute way, then this service is just for you.
However, for the opening of new places it does not fit very well. And the interface leaves much to be desired.
The advantage of flickr is a huge user base and photo, so even the not so widely advertised section Explore-> World Map contains a huge number of photos tied to specific points.
')
Maps are used, of course, from Yahoo, but this does not detract from the value of this service. Among the photos is full of pictures like “I am on the background ...”, however, the impression of a place is perhaps the most complete.
The uniqueness of this service is in addition to the maps and photos also the video and texts describing a specific place. We can say that it mashup 5 services at once: Google Maps, Flickr, Youtube, Wikimapia and Placeopedia. The last 2 are responsible for a bunch of cards with articles from Wikipedia.
There is a lot of video even from places that are not very popular, but sometimes there are not enough texts, nevertheless, it makes it possible to create a complete impression of the city or region.
Panoramio
Panoramio, whose views of American cities were integrated into Goggle Maps as Streets View last week, meanwhile has a large database of photos from around the world.
Basically, these are specific photographs from art and tourist albums, which do not give a real idea, however, strict filtering and linking to geographic places and buildings leaves practically no room for typical tourist photos, which have already been discussed above.
Pixagogo would be no different from other services if it were not for the focus on creating custom albums. If you decide to structure your pictures after the trip and present them to your relatives and friends in a cute way, then this service is just for you.
However, for the opening of new places it does not fit very well. And the interface leaves much to be desired.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/9470/
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