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Flickr Places Launched

posted by Satri on Thursday November 22, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the tag-the-world-of-pictures dept.
Web Mapping
The Map Room informs us of the launch of Flickr Places: "Today Flickr released two new maps-related features. The new Flickr Places pages will take some of the 30+ million publicly geotagged photos already uploaded and organize them into key themes for over 100,000 locations. Each Places page features interesting photos and photographers, related Flickr Groups, and the tags that make that area unique. The maps page itself gets a great upgrade as well, with an improved world map where people can easily view popular and up-to-date themes." Christian Spanring claims it's not necessarily good news: "Maybe it’s just me, but I think the continent spanning words (tags) on the new Flickr map are a step backwards regarding usability, compared to the really nicely done photo-dots-generalization the previous version of the map had. The only interactivity on the new map is clicking tags, right?" See also numerous Flickr-related stories below.
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