i took a look at flickr last night and was amazed. i browsed using the world map. i recently took a trip to france and plugged in arles france just for kicks. at first i was looking for the results on the page with the map, but then realized you have to focus in a little (in this case, that meant clicking on "lots").
i didn't like the slideshow feature, where the map stays in place and the results just slide back and forth in a little bubble. however, i can see how it would be helpful if you were doing several different searches or were not picky about your results.
i was amazed by all the images as well as by the geotags. i even found pictures from my armpit of a hometown... woo-hoo! i also sent a few pictures that i found to friends, just for fun.
aside from the humor factor, libraries and patrons could make use of flickr too. it seems like it would be an easy way for students to find "real" pictures of places for reports, or for travelers to get a better sense of where they're going (as opposed to the bureau of tourism websites which always show the best sides of everything), or for people who like to decorate their own greeting cards/letters/stationery/scrapbooks.
flickr also provides users with the chance to join groups, which can be private or public. these would be particularly helpful for users with interests that are partly visual, or could be shared visually somehow... i'm thinking here like gardening, orchids, antique cars, things like that.
It's amazing that someone in France can take a picture, then I can copy it, put it up using Snapfish, and make my own prints of other people's pictures!
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