Yahoo! Research merges Maps, Tags and Photos

From the Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day blog: Yahoo! Research continues working to merge several of it's social properties in interesting ways - this time with the upcoming release of Tagmaps. Tagmaps aim to integrate tags with Yahoo! Maps - with the tags overlaid on top of the map. As you Zoom/Pan the map, relevent tags get place on the display.

Yahoo! has created 3 demo apps:

• World Explorer - integrates Flickr Photos as well as tags to the map
• Night Explorer - similar to Worl Explorer, but the pictures are from nighttime
• Trip Explorer - instead of using Flickr Tags, this app pulls in from Y! Trip Planner

As well as these, you can also put the Flash component on your own page - pulling from your own data sources.

I'm a huge fan of tagging, and its great to see Yahoo! starting to pull all this together into some cool demos. Hopefully we'll see this rolled out at some time. For more information, here's the FAQ

Tags: flickr, maps, research, tags, yahoo