figuring out the future of geotagging now that geobloggers.com is officially gone

It’s official: Geobloggers changes direction and no longer functions as a mapping service of geotagged flickr photos. It was great service while it lasted. I certainly miss it. The old geobloggers.com aggregated information about geotagged photos and made that information available in its interface (auto-refreshing google maps) and through an API. It made effective use of google maps.

In response to the announcement, I posted a question:

I’m wondering whether you would be willing to donate your code for geobloggers.com as a mapping service or put it out as open source so that others in the Flickr community might step up to the plate and take it over.

Anyone out there willing to create a service to replace what geobloggers.com did? N ot a small task, and maybe one that will ultimately be provided by Flickr. There are other mapping services of geotagged flickr images — but none that I know of that aggregates the geotagging information and making it available via an API.

(I just posted essentially this writeup on the GeoTagging Flickr group to see what others think.)