Yesterday Flickr launched their mapping interface to share a photograph’s location. I spent some time getting to know the interface, which as you’d have expected was crazily simple. I love it.

Fortunately for Flickr they already had a large number of photos geotagged due to third-party plugins. However, the avalanche of tagging that occurred yesterday even staggered them: 1,234,384 in 24 hours!

Putting aside the fun I had geotagging my photos (yes, I’ve already admitted I’m a geek, and you expect it given I wrote How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution), the true fun is yet to come. As Stewart points out in his update, it’s worth exploring some of the amazing locations now in Flickr. Brenda points to Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, and the tag “selfportrait” was fun before, but now you can put it in the context of place.

They’ve also updated their API to grab geo data from their DB. Now we sit and wait, and see what new third-party applications appear using the data.