Picture having an Olympian view of millions of photos the world's photographers and cameraphone users have produced over the last day.

That's what Flickr, Yahoo Inc's online photo-sharing site, said on Sunday the company plans to offer this week, by introducing a set of mapping features that makes it easier to find photos based on their location.

Starting on Monday, Flickr will unveil a way for Web users to browse photos from tens of millions of geographically located photos loaded up to its site, http://www.flickr.com.

The service, called "Places," identifies on a global map the latest hot-spots for photo contributions.

"It's a new way to browse what is happening in the world," said Kakul Srivastava, senior director of product management at Flickr.

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