i've noticed..

http://instaplac.es - Instaplaces is a tool for finding cool things around you that you may have never knew existed. By using your phone’s GPS or your computer’s location, I’ve listed below the places near you where people are taking pictures most frequently using the popular Instagram app.

I was playing around with Instagram and noticed that there were locations for each picture, but seemingly no way to look at images taken at that location. So, instead of worrying about this missing feature… I built it.

I don’t know what got to me, I don’t really have free time, but I really wanted to get this done because I’ll be moving to a new city in the next few weeks and will be looking to do all kinds of exploring. With Instaplaces, I can figure out what places are fun just by looking how many pictures are taken there and of what.

There are a few issues - like a lot of pictures going un-tagged with a location and a limited amount of images, but Instamatic grows every day and hopefully this will encourage people to tag their photos with a location ;). I also noticed it didn’t work when I tested in Safari, but it works fine in Safari for iOS - so I’m just chalking that up to a gimmick for now.

Behind the scenes, Instaplaces is built with sintra and obviously powered by the Instagram API.