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19th January 2008 - Link Blog

Flickr Place IDs. flickr.places.find, flickr.places.resolvePlaceURL and flickr.places.resolvePlaceID combine to provide a really useful, lightweight not-quite-a-geocoder API. It's a shame you can't search for places by providing a latitude/longitude point yet.

Posted 19th January 2008 at 7:34 am

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