Flickr Improves Geotagging With “Places Pages”

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Flickr has improved their geotagging system by making it a lot easier for people to find, view and search for photos based on places and tags.

Currently culling from over 70,000 places, you may now search for apples in New York, elephants in India, Guinness in Ireland – or anything else your heart desires. Just enter the location and a tag and Flickr will take you there.

Along with photos, Flickr is getting more location-centric by providing the time, weather and relevant Flickr Groups for the location you’re searching.

Yahoo! plans to evolve the service by eventually allowing people to search by time or season. For example, if you are looking for a picture of Mount Washington in winter, you’ll now have a way to track it down. Also, as more and more photo devices come built in with GPS, they will auto tag photos, taking the tedious data entry out of the equation. This advance should help make this feature more popular.

The Flickr news comes on the heels of a marriage between Platial and Frappr – Web sites that collectively hold over 100 million user-generated location-based points of data.

With over one billion photos and over 35 million unique visitors a month, there is a good chance you will find what you are looking for. And if you don’t, grab your camera and get uploading!