Flickr Places will Map Photo Hotspots

Yesterday, Flickr announced a new mapping feature which will help in find photos based on location. This new feature, named "Places", will enable users to explorer countries, cities, regions and thousands of other location in a better way.

Flickr has picked more than 10,000 geographical locations and given them their own pages to display photos. They’ll also provide location information such as maps, weather and current time on that location. For instance, if you want to check out photos from Mumbai, you can visit the Place page for that city and see a collection of photos.

Flickr Places look as if it uses the tradition geo-tagging feature in addition with tags, but instead of those pink dots, we’ll see hot tags with a stream of photos in the ribbon at the bottom. This feature will be extremely valuable for travelers who wish to see the location before actually going there.

Flickr Places will be available in 8 languages – English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese. Flickr Places will keep growing by 3000 – 5000 new pages each week.

[Via: Reuters]