Flickr has added drag-and-drop geotagging to their on-line photo sharing service. You can now place your photos on a world map and show where the picture was taken. ( My sample.) Think of what students can do with this feature. They can take their home town and create an on-line photo history of their town. The steps would be fairly simple.
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