Flickr announced that it hit the 100 million mark for geotagged photos way back in February of this year. With the exploding popularity of location-aware devices, and with traffic to its mobile site increasing at more than 50% year-over-year it can’t be a surprise that there’s a new ‘Nearby’ tab on the mobile site, which will take you to a map which organizes photos based on where they were taken. Talk about an upgrade from photos having simple text tags only.
Also, with Android phones or iPhones with 3.0 firmware, you can find Flickr photos taken near your present location. A few quick ideas, off the top of my head:
Ever been on a road trip driving at night, and wondered about the landscape you were were missing?
If you surf or ski, wouldn’t it be cool to see just how good the waves or ski conditions get at a given spot by checking photos taken by others at the same locations, on good days?
If you’re shamefully celebrity-smitten, what about discovering what stars have eaten or partied the night away at a given restaurant or hot spot, based on photos others have taken.
For application developers, the new Flickr functionality just made it even simpler to make apps that are 100 times cooler than these, I’m sure.
