Brady Forrest over at the O'Reilly Radar points to a new project released by Yahoo Research Berkeley : TagMaps . It mashes together Yahoo Maps and Flickr Images. The interface is both extremely easy to use - mostly just point, click, drag, drop, etc. But, like so many of these tools, once you dig around a bit more, you find additional functionality. I particularly like how the "pile" of photos on the right are both clickable and editable. That is, you can move them around as if they were on your desk and if one doesn't "fit" (e.g. tagged incorrectly, you can remove it from the stack).
The "Trip Explorer" feature (see the menu at the top of the page) is particularly splendid. For teachers, especially those middle and high school social studies teachers who assign students world culture, image, and travel assignments (you know, the old "create a brochure for visitors to city x" assignment) this is quite a boon. Or, at least mildly entertaining.
So what should we do