Dent This Carrot

I don’t know yet. Flagr is a social placemarking mash-up with Google Maps. You mark a spot and tell something about it. Cool, but who is going to use it? What would make me go to Flagr to search as opposed to somewhere else?

I’ve thought about one useful (there are probably more) application for this… Tracking a journey, vacation, whatever. You can post a phone-cam pic along with text about a location, so you could put in tags (perhaps in the description) of the order in which you visited each location. I’m invisioning something obsure for the search tag, then a number. Something like “NYCMAR06 1″, “NYCMAR06 2″, etc. I haven’t actually tried this yet to see if it would work, but its an idea.

What’s going to happen to all of the Google Maps mash-up sites if Google should decide to close the map API due to bandwidth costs? Companies are building their business models on this stuff. Is it smart?