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28th September 2009 - Link Blog

"That's maybe a bit too dorky, even for us.". Astonishingly exciting: Flickr now have machine tag support for OpenStreetMap—tag a photo with osm:way=WAY_ID and Flickr will figure out what OSM feature you are talking about and link to it with a human readable description.

Posted 28th September 2009 at 10:39 pm

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