A couple of my students have had problems getting their geotagged photos to show up on the public map: http://www.flickr.com/map
They show up on a private map. Here is my private map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/proftrusty/map
but the same photos don’t show up on the public map. We would like to go to this URL: http://www.flickr.com/map/?&q=remarkableohio&fLat=40.093395&fLon=-82.935791&zl=11
and get all the photos geotagged with “remarkableohio”.
After looking through the Flickr help files, I ran across this information: http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#69
To prevent someone from posting an “offensive” photo, any account must be approved before its content can show up in the public searches. In order to get approved, you must first submit five pictures. Once you hit the magic number five, they review your photos and put you into the public searched (if your pictures are ok).
Here’s another handy link that John sent me.
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=remarkableohio&format=rss_200
Place the above URL into your RSS aggregator and you will get a continually updated list of the pictures (with thumbnails) tagged for our project. RSS is so cool.