Serious props to Thomas Hawk, lead Zooomr Evangelist, for his well thought out post regarding Flickr’s new geotagging facilities. Especially since Zooomr is pretty clearly a competitor and that the geotagging was one (but just one) of their distinguishing features!

The updates from others at Yahoo and Flickr and the comment thread are interesting as well. Sometimes it’s easy to take this kind of open communication for granted when, in reality, it is a relatively rare and precious thing.