another earth

Browsing photos on a map is probably the biggest tease going on the 2.0 right now. While we are starting to see some applications/sites all of these have some kind of problem. Flickr's map is too grainy and the interface is crabby.

Panaramio is the easiest way to get your photo on Google Earth (google owns Panaramio), but not the easiest way to browse photos on Google Earth. There is a long lag time between when a photo is uploaded and when it is "Published" to google earth. Buried in their site is a link to view all Panarmio photos in Google Earth(opens in Google Earth). But this isn't how they see or promote their site (plus they have a serious server problem).

Even though there is already kmlphotos.metaltoad which lets you see your flickr photos on google earth (probably the best solution so far), I was excited to see that

Earth Album (Article @ Guardian)

has found another way to mash flickr photos on to a map. Even though their interface is similar to flickr's and has ugly advertising, it shows that the tech world knows that there is no great way to view photos on a map, and that they're working on a way to streamline viewing of geotagged photos.