Flickr now finds locations
Candace Lombardi
In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET.
No more guessing where that photo of a seemingly familiar white monolith next to a reflecting pond was taken.
Flickr, Yahoo's photo-sharing Web site, launched Flickr Geo Tagging on Monday. The feature does just what its title suggests; it allows members to find and share photos by tagging them with geographical location information.
The photos can be tagged by dragging the image onto a specific location on a map. The tagged info includes latitude, longitude, city, state and country. Users can also create geographical map of their personal image collection.
It certainly makes "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego" seem very antiquated.