mapping your photos
In this week’s Plain Text, I write about the marriage of photos and maps- the new Internet tool that’s called, awkwardly enough, geotagging. Geotagging is the practice of attaching any of your online photos to a publicly viewable map. Millions of Flickr users have done this in the last month, and the result is richly multidimensional maps, like the one in the image above. The dots represent various users’ photos of Lighthouses on the Great Lakes.