100 million photos suggests Flickr has put geotagging on the map
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Location, location, location. As in, it’s going to be a big part of a lot of what we do on the web going forward. We’re seeing some of the big companies like Google now get into it with their new Latitude service, but before that, Yahoo’s Flickr service has been geotagging photos, so you can record and see where they’ve been taken. And use is exploding - to the tune of over 100,000,000 geotagged photos.
Flickr now has 100,868,302 geotagged photos as of its last count this weekend, the service notes on it Flickr Developer Blog. That’s over 100 million photos geotagged in the two and a half years since Flickr started offering that feature. For some comparison, it took the entirity of Flickr over two years to get 100 million pictures total after it launched.
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