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See The “World In Pictures”

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Just a few days ago I mentioned that Flickr is offering geotagging on their pictures. With this feature, people can see exactly where photos are taken.

Well, today I saw a new site that takes advantage of this great new feature. Worldinpictures.org allows you to search an address or city or zip code, and returns pictures that were taken near that spot. I think this is great.

The results are pretty good with over a million pictures already tagged on Flickr. But, as more people tag the location, I think it will be really fun to play with the World In Pictures site. Be sure to tag all of your pictures to help the cause.

Turning Your Panoramas Into Planets

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On the great Photojojo site (which I love) they wrote a great tutorial on turning your panorama photos into little floating planets. The correct term would be “Polar Panoramas”Althought I haven’t been able to try it yet, I’m really excited to put the technique to the test.

If you’d like to know how to do this, take a look at the tutorial. The Photo above came from Dirk Paessler. If you’d like to see some more examples, you can visit the Creat Your Own Planet Flickr Group.