That makes for a nicer slideshow than SmugMug's thumbnails, but there's not too much of a sense of place to it. Like SmugMug, it's got a slideshow ability, though its photos are large and its map, a strip on the left edge with pushpin locations, is more an afterthought. Like Panoramio, Locr, a German company, lets you upload your own photos. likewise is an entertaining way to browse geotagged photos it's a glitzy interface built on top of Flickr photos and Google Maps. ![]() Google's Panoramio has a reasonable approach to virtual tourism if not necessarily the best interface for storing your photos-it seems like a ripe candidate for some integration with Picasa. There are some other options out there that deserve a look. I'm glad the Organizr lets me change this setting, but why isn't there a geoprivacy option in a photo's privacy settings window or in the map that's shown when you click the photo? Happily, Flickr lets you set the geoprivacy of each image, though doing so is awkward. Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield prohibited geotagging of images of a party at his house. Naturally you might not want to share with the world the location of your living room, and your pernickety aunt might be even touchier. Stephen Shankland/CNET NetworksĪnother major advantage of Flickr is its handling of location privacy-geoprivacy in Flickr parlance. SmugMug lets you tour a gallery of photos on a map-a cool if still rough-around-the-edges feature. A more photo-oriented site might not have that space to spare. But in part that's because there's a big panel of verbiage to the right of the screen on which that kind of real estate is available. I also like the way Picasa, on an individual photo's page, includes a map showing where it was taken. And for people who are geotagging their photos through the Web site, I think Picasa's interface is the best. It also shows larger pop-up versions than Flickr does. Where Picasa has the edge over Flickr and SmugMug is in showing thumbnails of each image on the map, not just a dot or pushpin, which I like better even though thumbnails can get pretty crowded. But there's no question in my mind that the feature imparts a sense of traveling through a place, a sensation that regular slideshows completely lack. And for slideshows, thumbnails are hardly the best way to showcase sweeping vistas. ![]() It's a bit rough around the edges-I'm guessing because the technical difficulties of combining external Google Maps data with its own thumbnails-so it can be herky-jerky at times and with missing map elements.
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