Flickr Photo Maps

Some new cameras have GPS systems built in and can store latitude and longitude info in the photo file. There are also external devices that work with some cameras to do this. People have written applications to show the photos on maps and there have been some Google mashups doing similar things.

But Lifehacker reports that photosharing giant Flickr can now show a yahoo map of photos. This really will bring it to the masses and I think make this a common occurrence.

Now how long until someone puts a Time Machine interface on this to show both where and when pictures were taken? In a hundred years, imagine being able to look at a map and see pictures taken of a location over a previous century.