If you have a camera with a built-in GPS, it will record in the EXIF headers the information on the position where the photography was taken, so if you then upload that photo to Nirudia, you won't have to do any more to geolocate it, because our system will do that job by means of the data given by the GPS.

This kind of cameras is not common for now,but we'll begin to see them shortly.

Ricoh 500 SE camera has a GPS inside wich grabs the data into the photo's EXIF header.

A few mobile phones that do have a camera and a GPS builts-in, do it that way too.

More information on GeoTagging.

The Operator plugin is a perfect tool to interact with web pages that have microformats inside.

We at Nirudia do use two microformats for now: Tag an Geo (this one works fine to indicate a geographical point).

With this plugin you will be able to view in Nirudia a point from any site which uses Geo Microformat, or even to upload a photo from there to Nirudia.

Tony Farndon (Tapagh leibh, thank very much in Scottish Gaelic), has done the script for Tagzania, and we have adapted it for Nrudia, with Tony's permission.

To see how it works we will use one Tagzania page that does use Geo Microformat, www.tagzania.com/item/192: in the Operator plugin toolbar we go to the "world" and it will show us every microformatted points in that page; we next select the one we want and by clicking Nirudia Nearby it will show us all the pages from that place in Nirudia (in this case it is Ometepe Island), and if we activate "Nirudia Post to", we will be able to upload a picture from this point to our photolog in Nirudia.

In the same way and if you are surfing on any Nirudia page you can see the localization in other sites as Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps.

As you see, it is a a very interesting application for Nirudia.

In order to install this script you must have Firefox 2 and the version #8 of the Operator Plugin. In addition, you will have to install the nirudia_userscript_8_version.js.zip User Script.

To install this last one, you have to unzip that file, go to Operator Plugin Options, click in "User Scripts" tab and add the little file. Once this is done, you will have to restart Firefox.

You can see some services that utilise Geo Microformat.

In Nirudia you can choose the license to publish your photos under.

There are three licenses to choose:

1. Free: Creative Commons BY - SA (Attribution - Share Alike): any one may use your photos but only recognizing that you are the photos author and publishing them under the same license.
2. Free with conditions: Creative Commons BY - NC - ND (Attribution - Noncommercial - No Derivative Works): As for the former one, but without permission to do any commercial use of your photos.
3. Copyright: The photo reproduction is not allowed without its author permission.

Now, the way you want to share your photos is up to you...

With this post we start a series of posts showing you some features that enrich the experience of using Nirudia.

Now, you can include the photologs maps in your blog or web. How?

To do it, you just have to copy the code below the map and paste it to your site.

For now just the photolog most recent photos map can be included, as well as the photolog places labeled with a certain tag (for instance, railway station.)

Let's put here a map with the photos tagged as "roman empire" in the Ketarian photolog:

Nirudia » ketarian » roman empire