I’ve also noticed that Flickr seems to be making use of microformats. If you look at a photo which has geo data added to it via the Flickr Organizer and you’ve got a microformats plugin in your browser, you’ll notice you’ll be able to look up the location on Google Maps (or similar depending on which plugin you’re using). This is good news. Microformats are very lightweight and easy to implement, but obviousy the big players are going to need to buy in to them for them to really start to have any impact. Nice one Flickr, and hopefully a right move in the direction of greater interoperability between Web2.0 applications.
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KML and microformats in Flickr
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Just noticed that you can now export Flickr photo data in two new formats: as a GeoRSS feed and as KML so you can view your photos within Google Maps. I’m not sure why Flickr (which is owned by Yahoo) would be that bothered providing a Google export format, but it’s welcome all the same.