I was contacted by Schmap!! a couple days ago about usage of some of my photos of Philadelphia. Schmap!! is a company that makes these downloadable travel/city guides that are searchable and printable complete with photos of locations. I downloaded the NYC guide and fooled around for a bit. Pretty cool.
The photos are displayed in the top right. If there is more than one shot, it continues through a looping slideshow. And if you click on the photo[s] you are taken to the flickr page where that photo resides - pretty cool. The flickr api has been getting some pretty cool uses, just like Google's. But actually, this could just simply be some hard coding of links.
No money for this, but I just think it's pretty cool. They asked for nineteen of my shots of Rittenhouse Square, 76ers games, Love Park, restaurants and other locations around town. And according to this thread on the Philadelphia flickr discussion forum, many others have been contacted as well. Cool.
The Philly guide is due out sometime in April.
They chose 3 of my photos also.
Posted by: Ben Mason | March 30, 2006 at 01:10 PM
They chose 9 of my photos. I just realized however that I have to ok their choice and hit submitt. It looks like the Philly and Atlanta guides are both slated for April.
Posted by: Jim | April 01, 2006 at 10:32 AM
Very cool. The didn't chose any of mine, because I don't take any like that....lol...anyways, you just keep building the resume and portfolio. Very cool.
Posted by: Frank | April 01, 2006 at 10:52 AM