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Comment Re:Nice, but limited (Score 1) 80

by kristophertate on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @03:35AM (#15998431) Attached to: Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging

Hmm, that might be so, but it looks sync'd quite well. Examine the following:

Tokyo Int'l Airport: http://beta.zooomr.com/tagmap?ll=35.55275019750131 ,139.7843098640442&z=17

Not only is that Sat. imagery breathtaking, even Tokyo Tower is correctly lined-up between the map and the satellite images:

Tokyo Tower: http://beta.zooomr.com/tagmap?ll=35.65859512638627 4,139.74545001983643&z=17

That might have been a problem some time ago, but it doesn't seem to be a problem any longer.

Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging 80

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 28, 2006 @09:34PM 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."

Flickr to Grant Commercial API Key to Competitors 58

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 18, 2006 @04:45PM from the expanding-the-sandbox dept.

eobanb writes "The Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr has come under fire recently for the perceived 'lock-in' that their API creates. Flickr's terms of service state clearly that all photos uploaded to Flickr by users are owned by their respective users, yet Flickr's API only allows uploading, not exporting. Surprisingly, Flickr developer Stewart Butterfield posted in the thread on Flickr: "I actually had a change of heart and was convinced by Eric's position that we definitely should approve requests from direct competitors as long as they do the same. That means (a) that they need to have a full and complete API and (b) be willing to give us access." This means that users will soon be able to freely move data between different photo-sharing sites, like Zooomr (which has already implemented the Flickr API), Google PicasaWeb, 23hq, or Tabblo."

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