The World’s Photo Album
EarthAlbum is one of our favorite ‘photo on a map’ sites. Using Google maps you can select any place on earth and then see the top Flickr photos for that area via a nifty floating toolbar. And since over time the top photos change on Flickr they change on EarthAlbum. It’s a great way to get an intimate look at an area you’re interested in, via the mostly amateur photos of the folks who live there.
In case you didn’t know, the technical slang term for a site like EarthAlbum is a ‘mashup. A mashup is a web site that takes the data from two or more other sources and combines them in a new and useful way. You can read more on Wikipedia.
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