More control of your geotagging

I like to geotag photos for public viewing. Geotagging is the process of embedding GPS information about the location that the photo was taken into the photo file. Sounds complicated, but most camera phones can do this automatically. Why is this helpful? Well it provides others with meaningful information on the location that the photograph was shot. Plus years later it helps me remember more about the shot. Most of the photos on my Flickr page have geolocation (geotag) information in them.

But there are times where I want to not reveal the location of the photo on a public level. This new but probably long over due feature now added to Flickr gives much needed control over that. With it you can designate a private geolocation region called a geofence . Photos that are within the geofence will have their location information suppressed to the public and revealed to only those friends and family that are on the list. No more need to change location privacy settings on a photo by photo basis. I can now geotag with confidence.

Good job Flickr!

For more information see “Introducing geofences on Flickr! « Flickr Blog“.

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