Flickr to Update Global Views
Flickr are about to update one feature, and introduce another.
The new map experience makes it easier for users to navigate and find photos from around the world, showing currently popular tags in each location.
Clicking on the tags will bring up a stream of currently popular images from that location. This should allow users to see what is going on around the world at any given moment.
Places Pages is a brand new feature within Flickr providing visitors the chance to explore 70,000 locations worldwide through photographs, groups, tags and featured photographs of that region. This is a great way to see locations through the lenses of it’s local photographers.
These are a couple of great features being added by Flickr, and a good way to re-enforce local groups real world experiences of Flickr. In the past I have found Flickr’s large user base to be a little unwieldy and disjointed, but this should be a good way to keep in contact with local photographers.
