Not quite, but, it's OK. Yes! We've added a fabulous map of the world to Flickr. You can geotag your photos (in Organizr) to show us where you took them, or you can just browse around the world and see where other people have been and what they saw.
A good first step might be to watch our Exploring the Map screencast.
Geotagging is the art of adding location information to things like a photo. You can geotag your photos using Organizr by dragging and dropping them on to the map where you took them.
As an aside, we're proud to say it's a word popularized by a member of the Flickr team, Dan Catt, who created a cool site called geobloggers.com and seeded the geotagging community around the Web.
There are a few geotag-related groups on Flickr too, like GeoTagging Flickr, that you might be interested in. See what people are doing with all this location information.
It's easy! To geotag a photo just click "Add to your map" on the photo page (over on the right ;).
To work with more than one image you can open up the Organizr Map and drag photos from the Findr bar at the bottom, to the location where you took the photos.
There's more information about how to geotag your photos in the Organizr FAQs.
To change the location name on one of your photos, just go to the photo page, click "edit" next to the location, and pick a better name. When you choose a name we start by showing the most specific information we have (neighborhoods where available). If you don't see a good match click "See more names..." to look for a better fit.
"See more names..." will show larger geographic areas each time it is clicked. (i.e. neighborhoods > cities > counties > states). If you would like to see a more specific list of locations, you may need to remove the geotag data, then zoom in and re-add it. Then, when you submit the location, a more specific location should appear.
The corrections you make on the map help us define default locations and make the Flickr map smarter. Thanks! :)
The global map (that you access from the Explore menu) shows a lots of photos. Since we can only show about 250 photos at a time, you need to page through the results by clicking the little widget in the top left of the map. The photos on the map are sorted by either the most recent upload or the most interesting photos, so just like it's tricky to catch your photos in the most recent uploads, it's tricky to see your photos on the global map sometimes.
The best way to look at your photos is to go straight to your personal map. Click the "Map" link under your name on your main photos page.
That's a good next step! At the moment, there's no way to do this in the Flickr web site, but if you're familiar with APIs, take a look at Yahoo! Maps Web Services. (That's what the Flickr team used to display Flickr photos on a map.)
If you've assigned geo data to your photos using tags, and wish to use that data to effortlessly place those photos on your map, you may do so at the Import geotagged photos page.
You can keep where you took your photos private, if you want, or assign permission to any level you're comfortable with. You can set a default privacy level for any photos you add to the map, and you can change the location privacy per photo as well. To change the settings on a photo, double-click it in Organizr. Click the Location tab. That's where the privacy setting is, as well as the latitude and longitude of your photo's location. (You can edit that too, if you have that information.)
Remember that the photo's overall privacy setting overrides geoprivacy. For example, if you make a photo available to friends only, only your friends can see the photo in the first place. You can add a secondary level of privacy for where the photo was taken, say, "Only You" can see it, but saying anyone can see where it was taken is kinda moot, because only your friends can see the photo in the first place. Get it?
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