Flickr maps and Google maps

Check out Flickr’s new maps for London. This is stunningly good stuff… Yahoo and Flickr now have good maps for Britain and the rest of Europe as well, which should help the whole geotagging thing really fly outside the US. I’ve known this was coming for a while, but it doesn’t make its arrival any less welcome…

Tom Coates on Flickr’s maps

Er… maybe. Flickr/Yahoo is still, in fact, well behind Google in the quality of the mapping not that you’d know it from Tom Coates but then, of course, he works for Yahoo…

I while back I cited Venice as an example of the difference in map quality. Well, Yahoo’s got better, true. Here’s Flickr, now:

Flickr’s version St Mark’s Square

and here’s Google’s:

Google’s version St Mark’s Square

and I think you’ll agree that Google still wins hands down. In fact, although this is the highest zoom possible in Flickr/Yahoo, Google zooms in further:

Google, St Mark’s Square, full zoom

I hope Flickr catches up soon.

The real thing, incidentally, is beautiful, of course, and when we visited in an unseasonably clear and warm(ish) February, quite magical. Here’s Helen’s photo:

the Piazza San Marco