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Your Vacation Photos Don't Bore Us To Tears

This weekend's New York Times travel section was all about photography, and after wading through the personal essays and self-indulgent itineraries, we learned some things about the gaggle of photosharing sites out there on the Interwebs.

Writer Michelle Higgins breaks down the new offerings of sites like Flickr and SmugMug, notably their new geotagging capabilities. In other words, not only can you add descriptors like "over-hyped" and "under construction" to your photos of Six Columbus, you can also add it's address: "6 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019." Once your pics are tagged, you--or anyone else--can look them up on a map. Michelle had a really good take on how tourists could use geotagging:

Fans of graffiti can search the word, "graffiti," and "New York City," at Flickr.com/map, and pull up photos of freshly painted tags, all plotted with pushpins on a clickable Yahoo map. A search for "Dumbo Brooklyn graffiti," for example, finds some 99 photos, including the infamous "Neck Face" tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook.

We're still mystified why she didn't mention the Jaunted Flickr photo pool. It's chock-full of candid travel snaps. You have added your photos to our group, haven't you?

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[Photo: Peter Arkle for the New York Times]