Flickr: Explore everyone's geotagged photos on a Map

Flickr now supports Geotagging.

Flickr: Explore everyone's geotagged photos on a Map

Makes sense.

Flickr has had tagging forever and Yahoo has had Geocoding for like a year. Yahoo bought Flickr, so they own it too.

They are simply de-normalizing their various product's feature sets. ;-)

What is kind of surprising is they did not go the Flash route that you might expect on a project like this.

I peaked under the hood. Not hard, just do a "View Source" command with your browser.

What that reveals is that the page is implemented using DHTML technologies (JavaScript+DOM API). They also seem to make mention of XMLHttpRequest so I am guessing they use AJAX-like technology.

I saw mention of JSON in the code and no mention of XSLT - so I think it is probably implemented with asych JSON over XMLHttpRequest call, and rendered using DHTML techniques.

Right-mouse clicking on any part of the page confirms that this is not a Flash-based site but a DHTML one.

Anyway, it seems pretty cool!

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