Geotagging with Flickr

Today Flickr officially got built in support for geotagging. This is my first attempt at using the new "drag and drop" geotagging feature in Flickr. I have hundreds of photos with coordinates in the EXIF header of the image, but Flickr does not recognize this - I really have to drag and drop every single one onto the map.

Once I have manually placed the photo on the map, the photo page gets an extra line:

"Taken near Helsínquia, Etelä-Suomi"

"Etelä-Suomi" is Finnish for "Southern-Finland" and I think "Helsínquia" is Portuguese for "Helsinki".

The Yahoo map has a much less detailed satellite photo of Helsinki than Google and no street level map at all, only the main highways around the city, where Google has a complete street level map of Helsinki including even the smallest alleys.

The geoblogging support in Flicker today is very similar to the one in Google Picasa, but Picasa has better maps, better satellite images and automatically recognizes coordinates inside images in the EXIF header.

update: Flickr is working on the GPS EXIF problem, but Sam Judson beat them to it an hour ago: GeoReTagr.
It reads the GPS EXIF coordinates from Flickr and puts them back in Flickrs own format. It worked for me.