Chasers/Others Posting On YouTube Chase Posters - WHY do you not put the location

[beaudodson]

There are a lot of nice videos on YouTube. A lot of chasers are posting their videos to share with everyone in the chase community and general public. The person posting the video will put the name of the town but not include the name of the state.

1. People don't know where Johndoeville (just for example) is located. Please tell us the state! Is Johndoeville in Kansas? Oklahoma? Tennessee? Sure, we could dig through the SPC storm data archive but who wants to do that?

2. Posters are not putting the date of the event - the date you uploaded the video is not always the date you took the video. It would be helpful if you would post the time and location on your video text box - "more info" area. Where was the video taken? When was it taken? City/State/County? The more information the better.

3. Who took the video? Chase team? Lone chaser? Group?

So to wrap this up

If you are posting videos onto YouTube could you please let everyone know

1. Time/Date of the event
2. City/State (county would be nice) of the event
3. Who took the video.

I am posting a lot of the video reports onto stormreports.org but I am coming across a ton of chaser reports that show very little information other than the video itself. I am actually finding more videos without proper information than with proper information.

We are also working on an archive site for severe weather data. It would be nice to link some of your (chaser) videos to the outbreak archive. This isn't possible unless we have accurate information about the event.

Please, if possible, provide more information when posting videos online. Just some friendly suggestions.

Thanks

Beau

EDIT: Title should read

Chasers/Others Posting On YouTube - WHY do you not put the location

 

[Bob Schafer]

Beau, I agree. Some time ago I made a similar post about people giving insufficient information in NOW threads as well.

You'd read something like "Lots of rotation with the storm in Kent county" while there were storms in 7 states, LOL. Of course, it's easy to overlook stuff like that when the activity is happening fast and furious and one has a lot on one's mind.

Now I have to go check my YouTube vids to see if I am guilty of doing the same thing on any of my posts there. Bye.

 

[Eric Carlson]

I'm guilty of this. Usually my videos were embedded in a blog post with the location so I never bothered with the Youtube side of things. There's a great little feature built in to Youtube though that lets you use google maps to select the location of a video, so I've been using that instead.

 

[Shane Adams]

Posting on youtube is about self-exposure, not reporting. That's why the only detailed info you'll typically find is the owner's name/wesbite in the watermark.