Flickr.com released a new functionality this week for there users, GeoTagging. This is a very cool function. It allows you to place your images on a map so that you can virtually see where the picture was taken from. As of now Flickr is the only company out there using this functionality, and it has been a success so far. TechCrunch is reporting that with in the first 24 hours of allowing users to geotag, they have had 1.2 million images placed on a map. However, Fickr will not be the only company getting into this arena. Google’s Picasa is in the works of adding geotagging and will be available to place images on Google earth application. This is still in the beta stages so Flickr will have a pretty good gathering of users before Google can get there application released.

I like the idea of geotagging because it allows a person to search for pictures based on a particular location. Though, I thought it was very time consuming to add images to the map. Flickr allows you to drag and drop an image or a set of images that you want to be geotagged. Hopefully in the future camera makers will add a small GPS chip to the camera which will add metadata to the photo with the latitude and longitude of the picture when it was shot. This would then allow you to easily be able to geotag your photos.

Many people are talking about Flickr’s Geotagging and I would call this a success for yahoo in the web2.0 (if that’s what you want to call it) war. Yahoo has beaten Google in picture geotagging.

[tags]Flickr, GeoTagging, Picasa, Yahoo, Google, Web2.0[/tags]