Comments on: Problems with Flickr’s Map http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/15/problems-with-flickrs-map or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: derek http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/15/problems-with-flickrs-map#comment-50309 derek Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:33:16 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=113#comment-50309 yeah, this is really frustrating. i have over 10,000 photos geotagged on flickr and i've noticed the exact same thing. and it happens wayyyy more frequently than i would've guessed. it's funny when i map photos from the quad cities (iowa/illinois border). all of my photos taken in iowa (across the mississippi river) say they're from illinois. and the photos taken in illinois say they're from iowa. what the? when i map these same coordinates on a google map - the data is correct. but given that yahoo now owns flickr... i really doubt we'd be fortunate enough to get google maps integrated into flickr.... which is why i plan to use the API to map my own photos on a google map. yeah, this is really frustrating. i have over 10,000 photos geotagged on flickr and i’ve noticed the exact same thing. and it happens wayyyy more frequently than i would’ve guessed.

it’s funny when i map photos from the quad cities (iowa/illinois border). all of my photos taken in iowa (across the mississippi river) say they’re from illinois. and the photos taken in illinois say they’re from iowa. what the?

when i map these same coordinates on a google map - the data is correct. but given that yahoo now owns flickr… i really doubt we’d be fortunate enough to get google maps integrated into flickr…. which is why i plan to use the API to map my own photos on a google map.

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