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Putting Toronto on the Flickr Map

Posted by Zach
Filed in City
August 30, 2006

Techcrunch is reporting that within 24 hours of launching its geotagging feature, Flickr has had 1,234,384 photos associated with a geographic location. Toronto is off to a great start with more than 15,000 photos already tagged. I've just geotagged 98 of my photos (and would have tagged more had all of my recent photos not been from Oslo).
So if you use Flickr and live in Toronto, then show the world how you see this city of ours.

You can find tutorials of how to start geotagging your photos on Flickr here and how to explore everyone's geotagged photos here. Or just check out the map.

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I've been geotagging like crazy, and it's tons of fun. If you're a Flickr member and using Firefox, you should definitely check out this awesome greasemonkey script that lets you browse photos spatially.

Posted by: Sameer Vasta

at August 31, 2006 12:13 AM

Flickr really does do a terrific job on new features like this - the one thing I'd like to see changed about is to not have 'pages' for where the photos are taken in a given area. It doesn't strike me as the most effective way to do stuff. Plus, Yahoo Maps' coverage of Canada is pretty lacking at times. But...it's a totally awesome new feature that'll only get better.

(Thanks for the script, Sameer!)

Posted by: David Topping at August 31, 2006 12:22 AM

The most recent few posts on the Flickr Blog have some amazing numbers and behind the scenes info on the system. Neat!

Posted by: jerrold at August 31, 2006 12:46 AM

Toronto is almost up to 19,000 posts. By Sunday we should be well past 20,000.

Posted by: Zach at September 1, 2006 2:56 AM