Flickr was a smart acquisition by Yahoo – a photo sharing website that really emphasizes the social aspect of the web. It’s one thing to have a place to share photos with your friends. Flickr seems to place more value creating tools that let you share photos with the rest of the world. The upcoming Flickr Places will highlight that strength.
In 2006, Flickr added the function for Geotagging. Currently, Flickr has over 30 million geotagged photos – and according to sources the site receives a new geotagged photo every second. With all this geographical location data, Flickr has decided to do something interesting with it (beyond the ability to see the photos on a map).
The result is Flickr Places, which are pages that show the most interesting photos for a location (they call them iconic photos), the most common tags for the photos, and the most heavily trafficked photo groups. Flickr creates a separate Places page for each geographic location, organized using a human-readable URL, and they look like this one (for San Francisco):
At launch (which should be any day now) it will drill down to city level, but Flickr expects it to be able to drill down further in the future. Places will also be accessible via the Flickr API. [via O'Reilly Radar]
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December 9th, 2007 at 11:52 am
[...] were talking a little earlier about Flickr Places, which seems to have now gone live – you can visit the new section of the site [...]