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Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:49:06 GMT

Everytime I try create a map and import photos from my flickr account, it says "user not found". I know my username, just used it by storymap cannot find it. I am able to use google, but flickr not working. Is there something I have to enable on my flickr account first?

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

GregoryL_Azou — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:57:43 GMT

I don't think so. It should not but it may be because none of your Album is shared publicly.

If you can share your username I will take a look.

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:08:37 GMT

cgbeale

just made 1100 photos public and still no success.

Chad Beale

Visual Information Specialist

NPS/HFC Bottom Floor

67 Mather Place

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

ph 304 535-6451

fax 304 535-6176

http://www.nps.gov/hfc

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChristinaBoggs-Chavira — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:24:13 GMT

Are you able to look up any user account for flickr?

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:35:01 GMT

I also tried my wife's yahoo account and no luck there. Our accounts were

originally and still yahoo accounts that are used for flickr ids.

I tried the National Park Service (I work for them and it worked).

I just tried my name (chadbeale) with no spaces and it found something but

not photo, not sure if that's me or not.

my login user id is cgbeale

Chad Beale

Visual Information Specialist

NPS/HFC Bottom Floor

67 Mather Place

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

ph 304 535-6451

fax 304 535-6176

http://www.nps.gov/hfc

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChristinaBoggs-Chavira — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:47:01 GMT

Hmmm…my account is public with lots of public stuff, check rockoncali – I can show you my privacy settings if it works.

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:53:37 GMT

yes, maybe I need to make some changes. You can search for my images. I

just did

Are you photo "sets" just albums?

Chad Beale

Visual Information Specialist

NPS/HFC Bottom Floor

67 Mather Place

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

ph 304 535-6451

fax 304 535-6176

http://www.nps.gov/hfc

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChristinaBoggs-Chavira — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:03:13 GMT

If you click on organize within flickr you can have collections and albums…you can also organize into galleries. I think what is being labeled as sets are what is called an album within flickr.

Here are my permission settings under my flickr account, I suspect it’s somewhere here that is limiting the accessibility. Try looking at your settings to see if there’s anything set differently than mine:

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

RupertEssinger — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:17:40 GMT

Hi Chad

If I search https://www.flickr.com/ for cgbeale and look under the People tab it doesn't find anything.

If I search for Chad Beale it finds a ChadBeale but it is not the same user name as you gave above and has no photos public. https://www.flickr.com/search/people/?username=chad%20beale

If I search for ressinger (my account) it finds my account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/18337581@N05 which includes one public album (Offa's Dyke) that also therefore appears in the Story Map Tour Builder:

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

GregoryL_Azou — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:18:28 GMT

It looks like chadbeale is the login you want to use.

It looks Flickr changed their UI recently. What is now call "Album" used to be called "Set", we will have to adjust Map Tour for that.

This is what I get when I visit your page Chad Beale | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Until you see that when you are not signed in with your account, you won't be able to access your photos in map Tour.

When you are in the Organizer, does it say your photos are public when you use?

Good luck!

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:36:23 GMT

I think I needed to change the Hide your profile from public searches to: No

I had that set to yes, which I guess keeps storymap from seeing my account. It worked this time, now I have to figure out why storymap is not seeing my geotags which are showing in flickr and were originally imported. I see them in my view, but if I search when I'm not logged in they are not showing.

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

ChadBeale — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:39:59 GMT

Ok - I think I solved the next issue. Flickr has a separate geoprivacy setting for the each album. - man they don't make it easy. I guess now that I have this all as my default setting, I shouldn't have to set this for each album- I hope. Thanks for everyone's help.

Re: Flickr import not recognizing my username

RupertEssinger — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:46:56 GMT

Here's a snapshot of the options you need to enable: