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ZoneTag is a research prototype from the scientists at Yahoo! Research Berkeley that aims to leverage context from cell phones to create new mobile photography experiences. The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken. One of the challenges of this prototype is generating tag suggestions that are both concise and accurate enough to be easily handled on a phone interface.

Both the automated location tags and the suggested tags already help users find photos and organize their collections.

ZoneTag should work on most Nokia Series 60 v2 and v3 phones, but your mileage may vary. It also runs on the Motorola RAZR V3x. It may work on other phone models; try at your own risk and let us know how it goes!

Who built it

• Shane Ahern
• Marc Davis
• Dean Eckles
• Simon King
• Mor Naaman
• Rahul Nair
• Jeannie Yang

What people are saying
Finally flawless photos geotagging with your N95, Nokia N95 Users, SuBmArU
"...searching for a solution I discovered ZONETAG, a wonderful service offered by the guys behind Yahoo and Flickr: Zonetag claims to work with my N95, giving the opportunity to geotag a photo and to upload it to Flickr.
I gave it a try: I downloaded the client and installed in on my N95 ... and my jaws dropped down! IT WORKS flawlessly!"

Geo-hackers - The Zonetag API Goes Public, Yahoo! Developer Network blog, Dan Theurer
"ZoneTag is a little prototype that was developed by Yahoo! Research Berkeley. A look under the hood shows that it's built on top of a couple of interesting APIs that we're opening up. Anything that ZoneTag can do, you could do as well. "

Hands-on Hands on with Zonetag v3.0 for Symbian, Yet Another Symbian Blog, Ray Masky
"I would say this app totally Rocks !! Uses very less memory , very stable ..and very very useful !! "

Yahoo! ZoneTag 2-click-uploads location-tagged photos to Flickr, Engadget Mobile, Evan Blass
"Yahoo! has built an evolving database that relies on users manually tagging their stamped-photos with ZIP codes or GPS coordinates to provide a correlation between tower IDs and real-world locations, so the service will get more accurate over time."

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