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# Mapping my photos the Flickr way
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/08/mapping_my_phot/
- Published: 2006-08-30T17:32:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:27:20.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: flickr, geotagging, maps, photography, yahoo

![My Flickr Map](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2006/08/flickrmapaug06.png?resize=267%2C227 "My Flickr Map")Yahoo’s purchase of [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), the excellent photo hosting/community site, is starting to generate some interesting things. Finally. Flickr’s been integrated with [Yahoo Maps](http://maps.yahoo.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) to allow you to “geotag” your photos – add information about where the pic was taken to the photo itself, and then display the results on a map. You can see mine [here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/map?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

A colleague and I have been playing around with it today (you can see his [thoughts on Flickr Maps](http://travolution.blogspot.com/2006/08/geo-mapping-on-flickr.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) on the Travolution Blog), and have come to the same conclusion: the quality of the maps outside the US sucks really, really badly. Happily, though, [Flickr is aware of the issue](http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/geotagging%5Fone%5F.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> There’s been a lot of grumbling about the maps detail and coverage of Yahoo! maps outside the U.S. We definitely hear it, and the Yahoo! Local/Maps team, which happens to sit across from the Flickr team hears it (and feels it!) … loud and clear. The maps in much of the world are not good enough yet. We agree.
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> But, fear not: maps are continually being upgraded and street-level detail for more countries has been in the works for a while already. Satellite imagery upgrades already happen a couple of times each month (the Earth is big, y’know) and in the months since the new Maps beta launched, they’ve already made significant improvements. More are coming.

So, with a bit of luck, we’ll see some big improvements in a couple of months. I’ve long felt that map-based information was going to be a big thing going forwards. This might just prove my point for me.