Your Videos - Mapped!
Today we have put a new feature in place: video geolocalization.
Before, you could only indicate in which city or country your video was
filmed. From today on out, you can place your video directly on a map!
How does it work?
For new uploads, you won’t have to do anything you didn’t before. At
the end of the upload process, you will find yourself on the video’s
information page. We have added a map to this page to let you
associate your video with a geographical location, either by clicking
a location directly, or by using the search field.
To localize your video:
-Use the search field to find your location. Double-click the map to specify more precisely.
-or-
Navigate the map and double-click on the location of your choice.
-A pin will appear on the map, as well as a list of cities in the area. Select the appropriate city, or confirm the city you found with
the search.
-Your video is mapped! Now you need only to save your changes.
What happens to your old localizations?
Obviously, nothing is erased. The old location data remains, but will not affix your video to the map. You must go to the video you want to localize and select “edit info” to put it on the map, verify that a pin has appeared on the map (or double click on the map to add one) and click “save”.
But this isn’t all!
When you watch a video, you can now click on the geolocalized info (for example: Wichita, Kansas, United States, or longitude and latitude) beneath the player to make a map appear. This map will indicate the exact location that the video was taken, and you can zoom in and out, pan, navigate, etc.
We have also created a page which allows you to find videos by location: http://www.dailymotion.com/geoloc. You don’t have to enter a city or country, but can simply navigate within the map and zoom in to view videos in a specific area. This page is still in beta, but you can already search geotagged videos of any user by adding their username to the URL www.dailymotion.com/geoloc/[USERNAME]
ex: http://www.dailymotion.com/geoloc/gabma.
In Conclusion
In spite of all the tests we have made, a few bugs may remain in this feature. If you come across any, we invite you to share them in the comments of this post. They will all be corrected by our crack team of developers, fueled by the joe of our new monster coffee machine.
We believe this new feature offers enormous potential which will be realized over time. We hope you appreciate it as much as we do.
21 August 2007 à 9:22 pm
good stuff.
the only point i’d make is that double-click does two different things. it ‘adds a pin’ and ‘zooms in’. this can get a bit tedious after a while, especially because you can’t drag a pin once positioned. you have to double-click again and that means more zooming.
22 August 2007 à 8:04 am
[...] [source] The Dailymotion geolocalisation des vidéos by Luca Palli, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. [...]
22 August 2007 à 5:56 pm
great job,
Is it also possible to select categories (or tags ?) to limit the number of mapped videos and to focus on a specific topic
as it is possible for example on the maps of http://www.VeniVidiWiki.eu ?
22 August 2007 à 10:51 pm
Je n’arrive plus à ouvrir mon admin (trop de vidéos à charger ?) du groupe “Science”. C’est très ennuyeux et je finis par venir de moins en moins souvent sur mon groupe. C’est très dommage : cela commençait bien et ce groupe a une vocation culturelle forte.
Je pense pourtant que la meilleure tactique pour réguler un site qui croit très rapidement et de déléguer et de faire en sorte que les adhérents régulent eux-même le site.
Pour en revenir à ce qui m’embête le plus, pourrais-je bientôt reprendre le contrôle de mon groupe grandissant SVP ?
Merci par avance de considérer ma question.
23 August 2007 à 11:14 pm
“Service is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Please try again in a few minutes.
It can also be a problem with this page in particular, thus try to go back in order to continue browsing.”
I have this couple of days by some video’s I uploaded. What is the problem?
25 August 2007 à 3:22 am
same here magnifor, it broke as i was adding a pin to the map. have logged a report with support.
4 September 2007 à 10:38 pm
thanks good post
11 September 2007 à 4:46 pm
tenerife
11 September 2007 à 6:50 pm
[...] flag included in their profile. *You can map your videos–a feature Daily Motion calls video geolocalization. *Users can utilize the Audio Remix tool which allows one to replace copyrighted audio with music [...]
12 September 2007 à 6:09 am
#vogroll_9{border:none;margin:0px;}
15 November 2007 à 7:19 pm
My dailymotion jukebox wa working fine for so long and now on every jukebox on my site the scrollbar to scroll down to see which video I want to play has disappeard. Please if someone knows how to rectify this problem please post it. I am not sure if it is the settigs on my compter or a dailymotion error but my over 100 jukebox’s are worthless if I can’t fix the problem.
26 December 2007 à 10:26 am
Thanks for adding the map features.
11 August 2008 à 8:12 am
hi, andar here, i just read your post. i like very much. agree to you, sir.
13 February 2009 à 9:43 pm
Message Received: Jan 05 2009, 04:30 PM
From: “Dailymotion Notifications”
To: melon666@fsmail.net
Cc:
Subject: Your Dailymotion account will no longer be associated with this address
Why was this message sent to me Kendy?
It is 39 days since I made a complaint. I have sent 431 emails so far.
I have asked for someone out of 120 employees, to take responsibility and investigate my complaint as I can prove that the account melonooo belongs to me and me alone. I have over 4000 friends and I don’t want to loose all my messages. My account has been given to someone else, with a different email address from the email address I have used for the past year melon666@fsmail.net and now has access to my personal details. How is it that new friends are being accepted without my agreement? All the evidence is there for you to see. I have proved that you have sent notifications for account melonooo to my email address melon666@fsmail.net
I have now been told that Dailymotion will ignore my complaint and any questions from now on. Why do you refuse to abide by your own rules as stated below?
FOR TECHNICAL REASONS AND IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE HANDLING OF YOUR
FEEDBACK BY OUR TEAMS, PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MAIL DIRECTLY BY CLICKING
THE “REPLY” BUTTON OF YOUR MAIL CLIENT.
OTHERWISE, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE PROPER TREATMENT OF YOUR REQUEST.
It seems that the policy of Dailymotion is to ignore all legitimate communications until the account member gives up. I am not going to give up.
Dailymotion considers that a single member is not worth the effort yet states the following,
The information sent to Dailymotion is collected and processed according to current law governing Internet service providers. According to applicable law, at any time you are entitled to access, modify, correct or delete your personal data by requesting to do so via the “Contact Us” section.