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Dutch IT consultant and photographer Erwyn Van Der Meer is working on something called a Flickr Metadata Synchr, “a tool to synchronize relevant metadata added to images stored on Flickr with the original versions of those images stored locally on your hard drive.” Though the project is only at version 0.6.0.0 at the moment, this is a great idea. Erwyn shares some of the thinking behind it in this blog post. I think it’s a great idea. (The one drawback, for now, is that it works only under Vista.) It would be great to have access to the metadata associated with my Flickr photos even while offline, and to be able to work with that and then synch the same data on Flickr without having the enter it all again. Storing that kind of data locally makes it accessible to all kind of other applications, which broadens the range of things I can possibly do with it.

Discovery chain: Interestingly, I found out about this while checking out this image on Flickr, from Thomas Hawk, CEO of photo-sharing site Zooomr. Hawk uses the image as a long blog post that mainly describes Geotagger 1.2, a cool-sounding Mac app that geotags photos locally with the help of Google Earth. Not that Hawk blogs solely on Flickr–the post is also on Hawk’s blog itself–but I dig the fact that the discovery chain starts at Flickr, not at a blog. Now if only I could trackback to Flickr.