Background and Opportunity

Traveling and exploring new places always motivate me, but I have noticed that I tend to forget that what are some places called or their details over the conversation. Normally I would try to find that particular photos on my phone and show my friends or do image search to find further information. The similar situation not only happens to me but other people many times. I started to think about the possibility that the taken photos themselves could be all-time wiki pages.

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Research

Looking back to photo metadata path, photo metadata is about camera make, model, photo data, and general location from user’s photos. I would like to explore what is the possibility of metadata to be valuable and relevant to the majority of people. I have also categorized the behaviors of taking pictures to two buckets: Documentation and Meaning.

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Concept and Implementation

Two main problems the service aims to tackle are:

• Capture and document photo based on location information for better memorizing
• Searching and finding old photos based on integrating location based metadata

Browse Location-based Metadata

Browse Multiple Location-based Metadata

Metadata Sharing Through Messaging

Next Step

Capturing the location-based metadata per photo not only provides the productivity for people to memorize each photo’s rich location information but also enriches the social sharing ability. In it’s current form, “capture the metadata” is an early stage mobile application on conceptual level. The goal is mobile first and extending to web as next step.

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