290 Part III — Google Map Hacks
Wrapping Up
The Flickr web site does an excellent job of storing your photos and other images in a share-
able format. The API gives you a convenient method of getting the photos back out. Using
Google Maps to provide a geographical representation of that information is an excellent way
to make your photos accessible in an alternative way.The methods used in this chapter for extracting the photos are basic, but the system could be
altered to allow you to search and show information from different users or for a variety of
additional tags. Care would need to be taken to ensure that multiple markers were not created
on the same latitude/longitude, but you could also combine those images into an album-like
display by comparing the values as the photos are processed.