Greg Hills66.0%, Good morning, Chania! Back in 2007 I had just arrived here after an overnight deck class ride from Athens on the ferry "Preveli". Naturally I felt like death warmed over, so I went out to see the town and find breakfast.
ajft [SEC=yferc ooxie]@winterknell am following the project with fascination, I missed any intro or background, but I can assume there is a big box (real or virtual) of photos from the "I'll label those" pile
@ajft I started tracking the project in 2025; the first post, under "Photo GeoLocation geekiness", is here: https://mastodon.social/@winterknell/113755609082640747
I was already 23% done, so I've completed another 43% in 1.5 years.
I have a database of ~80K photos, with a front end developed across 20 years that lets me import, edit and label my photos. So each 1% done represents ~800 photos. I use Google Maps/Earth and OpenStreetMap to figure out where (give or take) I took each pic.
It's fun. 😺
@ajft I don't store locations in my photos; indeed, many of my older cameras didn't even have that feature. So to figure out now where I was standing when I took a picture is an exercise in geo-guessing. I do delight in tracking them down from often obscure clues. I don't take it too seriously, though - close enough is good enough. There's quite a few I've just pinned on some convenient landmark.
@winterknell I've done, or tried to do, something similar for the (much smaller number of) non-phone photos I've taken - there's a few boxes of transparencies from last century that I'll get around to one of these days ...
@ajft I feel that. I have scanned thousands of old photos, but I still have boxes to do. Fortunately I figured out in 2002 that it would be cheaper to just buy a 1600x1200 digital camera than to keep paying for prints that I'd then have to scan to use. Especially since I broke my expensive APS camera at the start of my 2000 trip and ended up buying a bunch of crappy single-use things to tide me over till I found a replacement later in the trip.
@winterknell I had an APS little Canon from '98..2003, loved the size & pocketability, but the developing and printing costs where an unexpected eye-opener when I was used to run of the mill 35mm costs. Must get around to getting a camera again one day, not just relying on the phone