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PBase Maps is still undergoing development and will be receiving several updates and improvements. </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <dl> <a name="615" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=615"> What is geotagging? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="614" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=614"> How do I geotag my photos? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="616" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=616"> How do I batch tag my photos? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> Click the 'Geotag your photos' button, navigate to the gallery you want to batch tag and there will be a 'batch tag' link right below the gallery title. Clicking this will bring up a marker and a balloon that can be moved around the same way a single photo is edited. Once you have positioned your photo and set the altitude/precision, click the 'batch tag' tab. Here you will see a checkbox for overwrite, which indicates if you want all the photos in the gallery to be replaced with the batch tag data... <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=616"><span class="small">(more)</span></a> </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="617" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=617"> What is the 'View user' button? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> In the text field to the left of this button type the name of some PBase artist you know and click this button to see all of the photos that artist has geotagged. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="620" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=620"> Why do I not see the 'Geotag your photos' and 'View your photos' buttons? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> You must be logged in to see these buttons. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="622" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=622"> Can other people view my geotagged photos? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> Yes, this is the whole point of PBase Maps. Your Maps page can be viewed by anyone at maps.pbase.com/user where user is your login. If your login is 'slug' your Maps page would be maps.pbase.com/slug. Furthermore, there is a map link at the top right of any gallery that has any geotagged images. There is also a 'view map' link on any image page when that image has been geotagged. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="623" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=623"> Why do some of my photos not show up when I log out? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> If you are a paying user, any photos that are in a locked gallery that you geotag will not show up for anyone except yourself. If you are a trial account user, any photos that you geotag will show up for everyone. If your map behavior doesn't match this, send an email to <a href="mailto:support@pbase.com"> support@pbase.com </a> describing the problem. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="624" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=624"> Can I see more than one person's geotagged photos at a time? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> Not yet, but we plan on adding this functionality. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="625" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=625"> When I view a gallery is there a way to show sub gallery photos? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> Unfortunately, if this feature were added PBase Maps would be too slow. If we can figure out how to implement this without losing performance we won't hesitate to do so. </dd> </DIV> <br> <a name="626" /> <DIV class=""> <dt> <div class="toptitle"> <a href="https://pbase.com/help/maps&id=626"> How do I delete geotags? </a> </div> </dt> <dd> If you know the image ID of the photo who's geotag you want to delete, you can go to maps.pbase.com/edit/image/ID or from maps.pbase.com click 'Geotag your photos', navigate to the appropriate gallery then click the photo who's geotag you want to delete. You will see at the bottom of the balloon that pops up 'save' and 'delete' links. Just click 'delete' and that photo will no longer be geotagged. </dd> </DIV> <br> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </TBODY> </TABLE> </TD></TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <!-- end box--> <br><br><a href="/help/maps&gcmd=add_comment">contribute to the help pages</a> <br> <!-- begin box --> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 border=0 width="100%" align="center"> <TBODY> <TR><TD class="ma">Comments <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0 bgcolor="#ffffff"> <TBODY> <tr><td class="wb"> <div id="commentlist"> </div> </td></tr> </TBODY> </TABLE> </TD></TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <!-- end box--> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>