Browse Photos By Location With Flickr Places
Flickr is all set to unveil a way for Web users to browse photos from tens of millions of geographically located photos loaded up to its site. The service, called “Places,” identifies on a global map the latest hot-spots for photo contributions, and also allows users to search by more than 100,000 geographic place names to find photos that might interest them. Many of the world’s cities as well as states, countries and regions have their own featured pages. One interesting benefit of this is the cultural exploration that it will allow.
Flickr counts more than 40 million monthly visitors and 2 billion photos stored on the 3-1/2-year-old site. Between 2.5 million and 3 million new photos are uploaded every day, with a growing percentage categorized by users according to location, which makes Flickr Places a winner.
As web surfing becomes a more localized experience, Places is designed to give the site more local appeal to users, as well as attract prospective travelers seeking to get beyond photos of landmarks for places they plan to visit. The location pages include some local
information such as regional maps, weather and the location’s current time. Flickr is adding 3,000 to 5,000 new location pages per week.
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