EXIF, Machine Tags, Groupr, and more Paul Mison

After we published Paul’s interview last week, he wrote in to let us know Groupr had been dusted off and was alive and well again. And followed it up with a post on machine tags, and automated EXIF extraction, two of our favorite topics here at Code.Flickr:

Why bother with such a thing? Flickr will extract EXIF metadata, but it won’t allow you to do any aggregate queries on it. By extracting all the data from my photos into machine tags (and a local SQLite database), it becomes possible to point people at all the photos taken at the wide end of my widest lens, or those taken with a particular make of camera (and to do more complex queries locally).Flickr, EXIF, Machine Tags

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About Kay Kremerskothen

Kay is a Community Manager for Flickr and passionate about extraordinary photography. As an editor on Flickr Blog he loves to showcase the beauty and diversity of Flickr in his posts. When he's not blogging or making Flickr more awesome (in front of and behind the scenes), you can find him taking pictures with his beloved Nikon and iPhone, listening to Hans Zimmer's music or playing board games. | On Flickr you can find him at https://flic.kr/quicksilver