Flickr Introduces a Page for Every Place in the World

Posted by Shabana on November 28, 2007
Filed under: Destinations, Photography, Sidelines

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Flickr has taken its tagline of being “the eyes of the world” one step further, with its new Places feature. Something of a virtual and limitless photo gallery from around the world, Places features pictures of news events that are happening around the globe, taken by its geo-tagging members.

Flickr Places

Places features an interactive interface and a global map with prompts wherever there are new photos for you to see. So click on “Thanksgiving Day Parade” and you’ll immediately get a bunch of pictures of Macy’s famous parade. Click on IFFI to be transported to the International Film Festival of India that just kicked off in Goa. Click on “Cute Butts” and immediately be … well, this one has a few pictures of derrières including a squirrel’s posterior. But you get the picture.

There’s even a user friendly photo ribbon – a strip of all the pictures for that place in miniature providing a broad view of what you can expect to see up close in each shot. Great fun, very addictive and a cool way to keep in touch with what’s happening in the rest of the world as it happens through the eyes of the people who live there.

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Alastair James
February 22nd, 2008 - 4:11 pm

This is very very cool. I particularly love the photos of places like Tokyo.

Maybe this is the best form of travel guide available?