Flickr Places: Photos, Locally Organized
For some time Yahoo!’s Flickr has organized photographs on a map so that people could see collections of images associated with particular areas. Now (or last week, I should say) the site has introduced “Places,” which are pages that contain maps, images and groups. It’s very cool stuff and the content be used across Yahoo! in Travel and Local potentially. Flickr is already a part of Yahoo! image search.
With Places, you can browse on a Map or search for particular places. There are more than two billion shots in Flickr so it’s probably impossible not to find a page/place for any location you can imagine:
The Map view also features tags that show recent photos/activity by members:
It’s really a fun, interesting and potentially useful way to view or browse the images in the Flickr database.
