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  • 2 comments  /  posted by  Marcel du Preez  on  Jul 01, 2010 (1 month ago)

    Introduction

    In the previous article (Displaying geo-referenced Flickr images in Silverlight 4 using Bing Maps) we covered how to retrieve photos from Flickr using their API, and displaying them on a map (Microsoft’s Bing Maps control). In this article, I’ll be showing you how to upload your own photos to Flickr, and geo-tagging them.

    The FlickrNet library

    Sam Judson has a library on Codeplex for accessing Flickr services from .NET, called FlickrNet.



  • 1 comments  /  posted by  Marcel du Preez  on  Jun 25, 2010 (1 month ago)

    Introduction

    This tutorial will guide you through creating your own application to display geo-tagged Flickr images on a Bing Maps backdrop in Silverlight 4.

    The components

    Flickr Web Services

    Flickr exposes a variety of services to access their database of public images, in REST (see this article), SOAP (read here) and RPC (here) formats. For more details, go to their API documentation. A detailed explanation of accessing RESTful services is outside the scope of this article, but, in essence is involves generating a url, downloading the result as a string (the Flickr REST service returns an XML file), and then parsing it to get the info we want.


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