Flickr, Yahoo’s photo-sharing site, is offering a new photo service today that will provide a gallery of images based on your location, according to the company’s blog.
When users go to the mobile Flickr site at m.flickr.com on either their iPhone or Android phone, there’s a new feature called “Photos taken nearby.” When clicked on, Flickr will ask if it can find your location, and then will return recent results based on that location.
What’s nice is that this is not an application, but something that be easily accessed by anyone (well, at least iPhone and Android users). But Imagine traveling to a new city or town, and wondering what landmarks or tourist attractions are nearby. When I tested it from my home, I saw photos of the new light-rail train station that is currently being tested just down the street. The results were accurate and interesting.
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) suggests an extreme approach: “Reload the page as you walk around a city, and see the things that have happened there in the past. You
Interesting… Flickr (Yahoo) is using Google maps to display location..