The new Flickr world map will allow people to discover “timely images” and “key themes” being photographed around the world, while Places give people a closer look at more than 100,000 locations across the globe.<\/p>\n
The mapping enhancements include a new, improved world map where people can easily view popular and up-to-date themes (represented by hot tags) in various languages across the globe.<\/p>\n
Clicking on any tag will take people to a selection of current photos from that location, providing a glimpse of the interesting and newsworthy things going on there.<\/p>\n
Currently, there are more than 30 million public geo-tagged photos on Flickr.<\/p>\n
The new Places feature provides a zoomed-in way to explore more than 100,000 locations from around the world (cities, states, countries, regions) through interesting and recent photos, groups, tags, and featured photographers of that place.<\/p>\n
Places pages also include some local information such as regional maps, weather and current time.<\/p>\n
These new features are available globally, in eight languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese.<\/p>\n