Flickr & Google Maps Meshup

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Using API’s will make it easier for designers to setup dynamic websites, without having the full knowledge of serverside scripting. In this example we use Flickr as a content management system, but it could have easily been any kind of weblog, as long as there is an API with a way of getting the info out, for example through xml. I believe myself that this modular way of working will be the future for software and hardware making.

I was so stunned by the possibility to use Google Maps as a framework for any kind of website, that we decided to use this idea and add to it. After thinking about this for a while and having looked at some other examples of Meshups, the idea arose to use Flickr as a Content Management System and to use the output which can be created with the API and layer it on top of the Google Maps Framework. Next to this we made use of the tagging system of Flickr as a sort of sub-navigational system for the website. So basically if you would upload images of different types of shoes, you could tag them with for instance shoes, red, leather, nike air max. By clicking on the 'red' tag you would get all the red tagged images in categorie shoes, by clicking on leather all the leather shoes etc etc. This is not the first Flickr vs Google Maps Meshup, earthalbum.com is worth mentioning here.

Have a look at the website and tell me what you think,

Hicham Khalidi

Credits:

Concept: Jij & McCuskey and Hicham Khalidi
Design: Jij & McCuskey
Programming: Michiel Sikma
Photography: Robert-Jan Verhagen & Dirk Jongen
Products and uploading: Concrete