I’ve revised my Flickr Shapefiles program to allow greater user interaction. This new version allows the user to query the Flickr Shapefiles dataset using a bounding box and selection of the appropriate place type (Neighbourhood, Locality, Region, Country, Continent). I’ve also changed the base mapping. The previous version of the project used the Microsoft Hybrid base map but I’ve now replaced this with my own Cloudmade style.

Using the bounding box it’s possible to browse the Shapefiles available for an area quite easily. However marking out a large area can generate a huge list of Shapefiles particularly in more populated areas. Hence loading times might be quite long at more zoomed out scales and may slow down some machines. I’ve put some fairly rudimentary stops to avoid using larger scale Flickr place types at smaller map scales.

Some example images…

paris

europe

africa

Click the image below to start the full application. The AS3 code will appear here at some point soon but it needs a bit of a tidy up first…