Flickr’s New Three-State Mouseover Map

Flickr’s new photo page puts a much larger emphasis on the location a photo was taken and has a neat 3-state map that reacts to the user’s mouse movements. It’s a very smart feature that orients users who may not be immediately familiar with a photo’s location at street-level (non-locals).

When you geotag a photo, the map is zoomed to country level when you first arrive at the page:

When you move your cursor anywhere on the map, it zooms to regional/city view:

And finally, when you move your cursor over the pink reticle, it zooms to much more detailed street level view:

Give it a try for yourself on a photo I took earlier in Liberty Village.