Simon Willison’s Weblog

The overdue Places post II—Prototyping Iconicness. How Flickr Places works.

# 25th January 2008, 4 pm / flickrplaces, flickr, revdancatt, dan-catt, geo

flickr.places.findByLatLon. New API method for Flickr Places. If only Flickr could return a bounding box for each place...

# 24th January 2008, 1:05 pm / flickr, apis, geo, flickrplaces

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.

# 19th January 2008, 7:34 am / flickrplaces, flickr, api, geocoding, geo