After a little hiatus caused by the vacation season we are happy to announce a few updates:

1. we have a little demo site that allows users to upload their images and to expose/view/edit the embedded metadata. You can update any writeable metadata tags back into he image or export is as a sidecar XMP file. The website also exposes previously uploaded images and these can be browsed on the map by right clicking and choosing ‘Nearby Images’.  We’ve also been experimenting with Dropbox integration allowing users to save their images into their own Dropbox accounts. This is still rough around the edges but flags up the direction of travel. As always, we are happy to receive feedback..
2. the website is ultimately powered by a backend web service. The API for that is now at version 1 and includes the new Dropbox methods.

Our primary goal with 1. above has been to showcase the middleware API of 2. show its not intended to be a GeoFlickr competitor, rather an illustration of what you can do using the API. Our Dropbox thinking has been influenced by talking to people in the community who run field work courses where often students need to take photographs of things in the field and then have access to them at  a later stage for annotation or reflective study.

One last change of note. The name. We have now settled for the more generic name ‘Tagger’. Its taken a while (the full project!!) but I think we are all mostly happy with the choice – its not too explicitly ‘geo’ and yet it remains descriptive of capabilities.