Question: When you tag a photo with location information, do you use the location where you were standing when you took the photo, or the location of the object or people in the photo?
Question: When you tag a photo with location information, do you use the location where you were standing when you took the photo, or the location of the object or people in the photo?
If you’re relying on GPS built into your camera, then you’re going to get the location where you stood to take the picture.
But I think that the geotag should be of the subject of the photo.
Think of it this way: how often do you ask yourself the question, “Show me all the photos that were taken by someone standing at location x.y”? Instead, you look for pictures that are taken *of* the location x.y.
I always use the coordinates of where I was when I captured the image. To me, it is the important piece of information to describe the prospective of the image itself.
I may ultimately look for images of say Mt. Rainier, but it would never be a search for a specific coordinate of the mountain itself, but rather, a general search for a vicinity surrounding a coordinate or a completely different method of search, such as by tags other than a geotag.
I’ve been designing my MySql database of my pictures. One field I’ve been considering adding is a geolocation field. And was just thinking of the same question. My ideas include not only the two locations but also adding in a direction and distance. Consider my photo of the Cunningham Cabin, How would I “tag” (locate) that one? The location of the cabin – which is only feet from where I was taking the picture, or of Grand Teton in the background?
A location itself is only part of the “vector”. A direction is important, and distance but to a lesser extent. Now form my shot of Mt Hood, I will have to find the curve on the road using GoogleEarth to get a close guess as to where I was.
For the comment readers, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwvore/, is where I’m referring to.
I’ll use the location of where I am when I batch process the pictures using wwmx or locr, but if I’m geotagging manually in google earth or something then I’ll try to do where I was standing but if it’s not obvious then I’ll use the location of what I was taking a picture of, but I think it’s better to use where you were if at all possible.