2023-04-14, 03:36 PM
I used to use Panoramio. I guess that got sucked into Google Earth? If so some of my pix might be in there somewhere. How do you enable photos in GE?
Many years ago I did early work in location-based services, and I was looking for ways to indicate where I might be, without actually saying where it was, such that someone "in the know" would be able to figure it out. For example, taking a random point in the middle of southern Panamint Valley, the radar station near Ballarat showed up as the nearest photo. Meaningless to most people, but anyone here would know right away where I was. (OK there is a similar one down in Searles Valley some place? I saw it last month).
Of course now you could just take that photo and do an image search on it and then know where it was.
But a better example is my house. The nearest photo was the playground of the local school. Again, if you lived near me, you would know, and that's fine, because you could also drive by my house and get a lot of evidence as well.
Many years ago I did early work in location-based services, and I was looking for ways to indicate where I might be, without actually saying where it was, such that someone "in the know" would be able to figure it out. For example, taking a random point in the middle of southern Panamint Valley, the radar station near Ballarat showed up as the nearest photo. Meaningless to most people, but anyone here would know right away where I was. (OK there is a similar one down in Searles Valley some place? I saw it last month).
Of course now you could just take that photo and do an image search on it and then know where it was.
But a better example is my house. The nearest photo was the playground of the local school. Again, if you lived near me, you would know, and that's fine, because you could also drive by my house and get a lot of evidence as well.