Map Tour Issue with Flickr and G+ not geolocating geotagged photos - bug?

[PaulDoherty2]

While I was creating a new map tour,  I encountered a problem using Flickr and Google+/Picasa. With Flickr it simply adds just five of my photos and they are not geolocated. When I use Picasa  it adds all of my photos but they are not geo-located.

I tested this using the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Google Chrome with both platforms separately.

G+ pjdohert@gmail.com

Album: https://plus.google.com/photos/114941592962485260656/albums/6164838959956417793

Flikr: pjdohert

Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134339650@N04/sets/72157654685094770

Photos are geo-tagged successfully in both Flickr and Picasa,they plot on maps in those platforms.

Is this a known bug? Can someone else please test as well?

[GregoryL_Azou]

Hi Paul,

In both case, the service is not returning any location to Map Tour Builder so it must be a settings. As you are able to see them on a Map in Flickr and Google Photos, it must be a simple settings. Could you check that setting in Flickr

And in Google Photos

[PaulDoherty2]

Greg -

Thank you for your quick reply.  I tried changing settings for both Flickr and G+. Then I re-uploaded the photos and created a new album, no luck, same results.

Here is the G+ https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOqKkeu3KWHTOs5kBcGM8S-JqTm1n_3BFVYUUKt

Any ideas?

Now I am working with uploading the photos to feature service. Problems with photos not being oriented correctly once uploaded (correct orientation on my PC, but not when uploaded). Have you seen this issue?

Let me know if you want the photos for testing, there are 35, taken from iphone 6.

[GregoryL_Azou · Accepted solution]

There is in fact two settings for Flickr:

About Google+ i'm not able to find more settings but they recently changed the UI.

If you go through Picasa https://picasaweb.google.com/

Do you have this enabled

If this doesn't help, yes if you can create a zip file with a couple pictures, I am happy to test.

[PaulDoherty2]

Okay that last step in Picasa fixed it!  I guess the transition from Picasa to G+  has created a circuitous usability issues with regards to location.

Flickr is still not working but I am going to give up on that for now.

Thanks so much for your help and continuing to support this great app.

[GregoryL_Azou]

Thanks Paul, glad to hear.

You are welcome. If you had just changed the first settings on Flickr, I would not be surprised if you had to reupload your pictures for the new settings to take effect.

[PaulDoherty2]

PS next time I will use Snap2Map : )