What I don't understand is why Flickrmap bothers to try parsing the tags for city and state names at all if there's a valid lat/long geotag present, though, which presumably has the absolutely correct location.
1. That's because there's a city called Florida in the state of New York.
2. We always check for city and country/state tags for labelling purposes. If a geotag or EXIF data is found that's used for the more accurate position but the city tag is used to put a location name in the pop-up label within Flickrmap.
We have to check all the tags so there's no extra overhead to check for cities as well. If photos are geotagged I might look as having the location description include a distance. e.g. 4km from Wellington, New Zealand
In my map http://www.mind-and-more.de/australia/flickrmap the locations from the descriptive tags (eg Sydney, Australia) are taken and NOT the geotags from the EXIF. Check out the pictures from Coogee Beach (eastern beach of Sydney) which I geotagged, but they turn up in the middle of the city. Any thoughts? Thanks, Frank
I'm having an issue with city names in Manhattan. Everything I geotag in Lower Manhattan displays in the right place on the map, but the label in the pop up reads "Hoboken, New Jersey." This is also happening with Northern Manhattan--it's displaying those as "Edgewater, New Jersey." I've tried everything I can think of, but this seems to be a bug in the way the maps spit out location. Any help? I'd be satisfied if I could hide the city/state names. The map can be seen here: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/news/articles/geotagged-map-test
Now fixed. I've switched the location name to being provided by Flickr rather than our own system. They didn't have anything when I built the process several years ago but now any new photos found by Trippermap will have a location that matches what city or locality Flickr thinks it is in their system.
If you have any odd locations, just delete those photos from the Trippermap cache and then request a rescan on the Photos page.