Flickr embracing geocodes and maps?

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Flickr embracing geocodes and maps?

by Chris Price Aug 5th 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick over on TechCrunch has an interesting post of a possible upcoming Flickr feature.

Marshall's post highlights some posts from Flickr users that noticed today a new Maps option on their photo page - one of the enterprising users, James & Vilija's, grabbed a screenshot (and posted it to Flickr).

This would absolutely rule and makes all kinds of sense. There have been other ways to geotag photos, but they have been limited and not applicable to the less technically inclined.

Integrating with Yahoo! Maps would make this easy to pin them to the right location, Yahoo! Maps already generates GPS Co-ordinates when you right-click on them, and hopefully will add tags automatically to the photo for easy searching later.

Tags: flickr, geotag, geotagging, maps, photos, yahoo

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