Flickr Memory Maps - Now this is Cool

Flickr: The Memory Maps Pool

If you have been following this blog at all you know I'm a big fan of connecting pictures with maps (geo-coding) and of FotoNotes, now there's a group on Flickr combining the two to generate "memory maps". These are satellite photos that are screen grabbed from Google Maps, typically of the neighborhood where a Flickr member grew up that are then annotated using fotonotes. This is absolutely cool in so many different ways. Some of the notes are great, where your best friend lived, where you hung out, where the girl (or boy) you had a crush on lived, where you went to school, where you................... etc. It is amazing how much insight you can gain about somebody you don't even know just by taking a look at a memory map.

It would be great of you could hyperlink from the notes to another group of pictures of the house or the friend, etc. This is better than drugs................ what is it that compells us to view annotated maps of people we don't even know? Curiosity, entertainment, voyerism?