Digital Home Thoughts: Flickr Geo Tagging Now Live

"Flickr added geo tagging functionality and search to its service earlier today. Adding location information on Flickr is done through the Organizr, under the Organize tab. In addition to the “Your Sets” and “Your Groups” tabs in that area, they will add a Maps tab where you can drag photos into a Yahoo Map area. A marker will appear that shows the number of photos included with that marker. Once you have a location you can use the Organizr to search your photos and then drag them individually or by sets into the map. Users can search for photos by location in the Explore area. Set the map to a location (world down to street level) and type in a search query. Markers will appear on the map with photos that contain that query in the tags or description of the photo."



My first comment, I cannot believe they used Yahoo Maps, they should totally be using Windows Live Local which is a much better mapping product (ok fine, Flickr is owned by Yahoo so they are sort of required :-)). Ok, that said, I think this is a great tool, hooray for photo-journalists and all of us who want to show a trajectory of trips we have taken. Now we only have to wait for all those GPS integrated cameras (otherwise we will be geo-tagging our images ourselves :-( ).