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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. Interesting search technology by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was worried they'd use uninteresting search technology, and that it would have blown the whole thing.

    I'm glad to see they decided to go with the interesting technology instead.

    Good call, Flickr!

  2. Re:Yahoo Maps is terrible by Wanado · · Score: 4, Insightful
    it looks like a cheap rip-off of google maps, but that doesn't work properly
    Agreed. People have been using Google maps and GreaseMonkey for geotagging for more than a year. Flickr's parent company Yahoo probably got jealous and is making another attempt to be as cool as Google. Too little, too late.
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  3. Re:Uh..... by hritcu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [Zooomr] offers free accounts to bloggers

    Free ... as in hooks.

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