Timeline for When should I avoid geotagging?
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| Nov 24, 2018 at 20:52 | comment | added | gerrit | @Brondahl Good question. I enjoy looking at geotagged photos to get an idea of what an area looks like. It is true that a precision down to the metre is not needed for that; I also enjoy an album of "my hike in Þjórsárver in 1985", knowing only the general area. The former happens to be easier to find. Geotagging is a way to return something to the community, I suppose. | |
| Nov 24, 2018 at 17:39 | comment | added | Brondahl | Why do you want to add geotags? If your answer is "so other people can go there to see the pretty thing", then that is specifically what Leave No Trace is asking you NOT to do. Don't have instagram tell other people where the pretty things are because it will eventually cause a problem. If you have some other good reason to tag, then go ahead :) | |
| Nov 24, 2018 at 11:22 | answer | added | hojusaram | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 17:43 | answer | added | ab2 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 13:06 | answer | added | WedaPashi♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 9:32 | comment | added | Klaws | Not what you are concerned about...but persons (especially women) regularly visiting places for swimming and sunbathing (especially in the nude) may get stalked after posting geotagged pictures of that locations (these pictures do not need to explicitly show nudity!). This can be an annoyance to both the poster and other visitors. Yes, this does happen in real life. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | I can assure you that "bison jams" have been a problem at Yellowstone since before AOL and the like took America by storm for "internet" access, let alone the advent of social media years later. Were those jams 2 miles long? Probably not, but it was no walk in the park, badum-tsh. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 23:58 | comment | added | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | Hi gerrit! The suggestions from people that bigger parks are in less danger is only partly true. As you know from reading it, The Guardian link focuses on big parks. For instance, "in Yellowstone, America’s oldest national park, visitation has surged 40% since 2008, topping 4 million in 2017." and "On a recent August day in Hayden Valley, a “bison jam” stretched nearly two miles long." Problems there and in other big parks are being attributed to social media. Of course smaller places are in trouble too, and some areas are fine! Thanks for caring! | |
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| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:22 | answer | added | Silt Loam | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 19:26 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh |
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackOutdoors/status/1064941542069149698 | ||
| Nov 20, 2018 at 14:36 | answer | added | Charlie Brumbaugh | timeline score: 33 | |
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | Aravona | This to me sounds sensible, it's the same to me as the difference between "I live right at this address" and "I live in region of country" but that's just me and how I use social media I suppose! | |
| Nov 20, 2018 at 12:43 | comment | added | Ricketyship | I don’t think of geo tagging in terms of leave no trace. Hiking in Nature isn’t a top secret activity to be taken up only by some. If geo tagging can help someone experience a beautiful place, I would rather tag it than keep it a secret. | |
| Nov 20, 2018 at 12:38 | history | edited | gerrit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 12:22 | history | asked | gerrit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |