Where to host geotagged images for easy Twitter integration?
October 19, 2014 11:40 AM Subscribe
I snap a lot of images when I'm out walking, and I'd like somewhere to host them that will allow me to post them to a Twitter feed quickly and easily.
The features I'd like the service to have are as follows:
The features I'd like the service to have are as follows:
- I want the site to have some way of showing where the picture was taken on a map, using the geotag data from the picture. Bonus points for this being available on an Ordnance Survey map, but that's not essential.
- The ability to create an "album" of images easily, so that I can link to a few images on one page.
- I would likely want to add a bit of blurb about where the pic was taken and what it's a picture of.
- I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like there to be a way to have the images show up within the Twitter feed, like they do if you upload them directly to Twitter.
- I'd like to retain all rights to the image, so preferably nowhere that has a sneaky clause in their EULA that means I give the company the right to sell my pics for a profit, for example.
- Double bonus points if I can upload videos too.
Flickr seems to tick all your boxes but having the images show up in the feed. I thought they did at one point, but a couple quick tests give me just links.
posted by brentajones at 12:00 PM on October 19, 2014
posted by brentajones at 12:00 PM on October 19, 2014
You can probably do this by combining Flickr with IFTTT
posted by supercres at 12:07 PM on October 19, 2014
posted by supercres at 12:07 PM on October 19, 2014
Confirming you can do this with Flickr + IFTTT. (Or Instagram + IFTTT, though this only really hits the "make the pic appear inline on Twitter" bit. Same with any other photo host that has an IFTTT channel.)
Awhile back, Twitter made it so that only images hosted on pic.twitter.com will display inline in Twitter timelines; that's why you either have to use native Twitter or else do a workaround. So the individual images will get crossposted to Twitter using the workaround, but the albums will be Flickr-only. I'm not as sure about the geotagging - definitely for Flickr; not as sure if that info makes it across to Twitter.
posted by Pandora Kouti at 1:44 PM on October 19, 2014
Awhile back, Twitter made it so that only images hosted on pic.twitter.com will display inline in Twitter timelines; that's why you either have to use native Twitter or else do a workaround. So the individual images will get crossposted to Twitter using the workaround, but the albums will be Flickr-only. I'm not as sure about the geotagging - definitely for Flickr; not as sure if that info makes it across to Twitter.
posted by Pandora Kouti at 1:44 PM on October 19, 2014
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posted by JackBurden at 11:54 AM on October 19, 2014