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Since we added the resource feature to Tagzania, Flickr photos can be added as URLs, to get a thumbnail and link to that great photo site. We also had a bookmarklet designed to upload automatically a location to Tagzania from Flickr, given that the Flickr photo was geotagged. When we introduced that feature, the most usual way to geo-locate photos at Flickr was the geotag tripletags: a set of three tags that users added manually or with the aid of other tools. Geotagging pictures at Flickr meant added tags like these to a photo:

See a live example in a picture from Budapest.

But then, some months later, Flickr introduced its own mapping system, and people has began geotagging pictures massively, not with tripletags, but with Flickr's own mapping tool (based in Yahoo Maps). The process is now easier for photo fans, and therefore millions of photos are now geolocated in Flickr, much more are added everyday than in the tripletag era.

You may recognise the new geolocated pictures if you see the 'map' link in the photo's sidebar.

So, now we've updated the bookmarklet set to adapt to this new way of Flickr geotagging. Look in the bookmarklet section, we have two Flickr bookmarklets:

1. the Tagzai Flickr Geotagged one, for the old-style Flickr tripletag photos
2. the Tagzai Flickr Geourl bookmarklet, which is the new one that you can apply on these cases examples: one, two, three.

Moreover, this Tagzai Flickr Geourl bookmarklet work with another wide range of websites. It happens that Flickr's new geolocated photos follow the GeoURL convention. So, the same bookmarklet will also work on other websites: British photos from the website geograph.org.uk, Plazes locations, almanac.com weather stations, Deviantart sites, Places2Visit in the UK and some locations frm the Land Use Database of the US Center for Land Use Interpretation, among other sites. Any location or page that you find through these sites, click on the bookmarklet, and you will get it at Tagzania.

If you are interested in Flickr's new mapped content and GeoURL sites, you can explore those realms from Tagzania itself: any item or individual location has, among the open maps options, Flickr link and GeoURL link. For instance, three skiing resorts  (one, two, three) mapped at Tagzania: in each one, below the maps, the options to open other apps: there you have it, the Flickr link, click there, and you see photos around, and the GeoURL link, click there to see sites that have geolocated themselves.