Photo Sharing
photo-sharing

In #balloon-mapping, #timelapse, #photo-monitoring and other methods documented on this site, you often end up with thousands of photos, which are hard to upload to the web or share with others. There are different ways to do this, and none are perfect -- choose one based on what you're most comfortable with and what resources you have. For each approach, consider: * cost * complexity * bandwidth requirements * preferences of the group you want to share with ## Options * [Share images on BitTorrent](/n/14183), a P2P filesharing program * [Share images on Google Drive](/notes/warren/05-12-2017/use-google-drive-to-share-large-photo-collections), which is $2 per month * [Use MapMill](/wiki/mapmill), which has some bugs, but was designed at Public Lab for sharing and sorting lots of images * [Combine your images into a video](https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/12-05-2016/how-do-i-make-a-video-from-a-series-of-photos) and [store it online](/questions/warren/09-16-2016/what-s-the-best-way-to-archive-store-a-timelapse-video), for example on [YouTube.com](http://YouTube.com) * [Use Archive.org](https://publiclab.org/notes/xose/05-13-2017/use-archive-org-to-share-large-photo-collections), considered as the Alexandria Library of our digital days. **** ## Questions Especially since none of the above methods are perfect, please help identify any problems, suggest other possible ways to share photos, or just ask any related questions here: [questions:photo-sharing] **** ## Related work * **Lens distortion correction** -- when you have lots of images, you may want to remove lens distortion. There's documentation on a few methods for this under the #lens-distortion tag * **Geotagging** -- if you want to add location data to your photos, or to take photos with location data, see #geo-tagging as well as #gps....


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STO01 "I really like your blog it is very intresrting and helpful for me. STO DEVELOPMENT " | Read more » almost 3 years ago
warren "Made an issue for this! Create bot to detect images with EXIF data and copy it into the Archive.org metadata - https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet..." | Read more » about 6 years ago
warren "Alternatively we could try to append EXIF data as Archive.org metadata upon upload. " | Read more » about 7 years ago
warren "Update -- we got some help from Archive.org -- THANKS!!! and were able to set up a proxy as a short-term solution. But the issue is now that EXIF d..." | Read more » about 7 years ago
warren "Several techniques by @xose, @stevie, and myself are posted here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/photo-sharing Using anything from Google Docs to Arc..." | Read more » over 7 years ago