Tonight I finally upgraded my Fickr account to the Pro version so I could actually create some sets and whatever else was possible. Hence the photo map. As you upload photos to Flickr you can place them on a map with Longitude/Lattitude coordinates or just an adderss and it will plot them. This all works through Yahoo’s Map Web Service which is more or less the Yahoo equivalent of Google Maps.
thats pretty damn cool
Yeah, I’m shooting for World Domination.
It’s only a matter of time…
More of an explanation can be found in this article today in the New York Times:
Pictures, With Map and Pushpin Included.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02basics.html