Flickr’s up for a big hit

Flickr, Yahoo Inc’s online photo-sharing site has planned to offer this week, a set of mapping features that makes it easier to find photos based on their location. Flickr will uncover a way for web users to browse photos from tens of millions of geographically located photos loaded to its site, flickr.

A service called “Places”, finds the latest hot-spots on the global map for photo contributions.

A senior director of product management at Flickr told that it was a new way to browse to know what was happening the world over.

Flickr’s service “Places” also allows users to search more than 100,000 geographic places in order to find photos that can get attention. Most of the global cities, countries as well as regions have their own quality pages.

Flickr drives in about 40 million monthly visits and there are about 2 billion photos that are stored on the site over the past three and half years. Almost 2-3 million photos are uploaded daily, categorized by users according to location.

The global map view lets users to see photos by theme. By clicking a category tag lets them to select photos, also giving a glimpse of what other users find interesting.

Places pages for about 100,000 locations including some local information such as weather and location’s current time. The senior director of product management at Flickr said that the site was adding in about 5000 new location pages every week.

The feature is mainly focused to give more local appeal to users, also attract travelers who seek to go beyond photos of landmarks and to places they plan to visit.

Flickr presently offers places in 8 languages- English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese.

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November 19, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News