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Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-toys dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Flickr today launched a mash up of sorts creating a tool in their organizer where users can use Yahoo! maps to geotag their photographs at Flickr. The new feature allows Flickr users the ability to simply drag and drop their photos onto a map, filter their photos by tags in order to geotag, and use interesting search technology to browse photos that have been geotagged on Flickr maps."

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  1. Uh..... by Sohil · · Score: 5, Informative

    I personally prefer Zooomr's, It uses Google Maps and is more functional than FlickR (and offers free accounts to bloggers)

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    1. Re:Uh..... by SriRed · · Score: 5, Informative

      now yes zooomr does give free accounts to bloggers but that lasts for only one year after which youd be oliged to buy a pro account.

    2. Re:Uh..... by eobanb · · Score: 4, Informative

      I agree with this. Google Maps in Zooomr is real nice. Even if you use Flickr right now, Zooomr's is definitely worth at least looking at for comparison. Not to mention that they had intuitive geotagging long before Flickr did.

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  2. Yahoo Maps is terrible by Tester · · Score: 4, Informative

    The sad part about this is that Yahoo maps is soo bad.. And the flash-based beta version is even worse, it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly. Any Yahooer should be ashamed of it. They can't do AJAX like Google. Shame on Yahoo.