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No option to turn off geo only search #5

Open rossjones opened 11 years ago

rossjones commented 11 years ago

I want to search flickr, and I don't really care where the pics are from, so it would be great if there was an option (checkbox perhaps) where I could say I didn't want to only find geocoded pics.

matthewhughes commented 11 years ago

Hmm. I'm not sure if I should roll my own tool that just searches flickr. The reason why it's geo only is because the api returns 0, 0 as the longitude and latitude for photos that don't have geotags. The problem is that there is a place in the world where 0, 0 is the correct coordinates.

Thoughts?

rossjones commented 11 years ago

I wouldn't overthink it, not sure how many people want pics of the South Atlantic Ocean

matthewhughes commented 11 years ago

But the issue is that an insane amount of photos would get plotted on the South Atlantic Ocean whenever you use the 'plot on a map photo.

Hmm.

rossjones commented 11 years ago

The joys of problem solving! Perhaps just don't plot 0,0? Or flag is as a geo-search somewhere and don't map those, or ...

matthewhughes commented 11 years ago

Trueeeee! I could just convert each zero value to null. That'll probably work.