I have been searching the Internet for a while trying to find how to use the geotags I have in the images I share on Facebook. I was sure I would find an application or some plug-in that would do it. I was wrong !
Facebook can’t use my image geotags 
However, to this day I have been unsuccessful. There’s no way to use the geotags I have already in some of my images on Facebook. Yes, Flickr’s way of doing geotagging is old and contorted, but at least you can get your pictures showing up on a map. On the other hand, Facebook has nothing…only an application for showing the places I have visited or lived in. That’s only putting some thumbtacks on a map.
Well…if you have found a way to use geotags on Facebook, please let me know !
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Hey, what about that one I found with google’s help: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=32662306621
cheers, sven (from germany)
Hey Sven…thanx for the suggestion. I’ll take a look and see. My hope however was that if I have geotags built into my pictures, that Facebook would just be able to use them.
Sven…I keep trying to use this application by the link is not working. In addition, all the Facebook apps that claim to support geotagging are not reading the GPS information from EXIF file, but rather they allow the user to place their photos on a map. If this application is any different please let me know.
vlad,
Check out http://geo.la , it is mainly a mashup of FireEagle and several services that use location for your cell phone, but you can also upload an image from the main page (after logging in with a Yahoo account) and it will extract the exif data from the image send it to facebook and attach a location url to the description.