I was reading through some ZDNet articles and happed upon a reference to Woophy, a photo sharing mapping site that provides the location of photos as they are loaded, etc.. I placed a couple of pictures onto it but it does require some thinking and manual work to do so. The Woophy site is quite similar to the ultimate vision of the gnome quest site, dedicated to mapping the world's lawn gnomes and other lawn ornaments including walking tours of neighborhoods with high lawn ornament density.

How long will it be before something like this is baked into Picasa or Flickr? But it is good to see something thriving on it's own merits before the big fish get into the water.

On the gnome quest front I did look into the Google Maps API quickly this weekend and didn't get the warm and fuzzy feeling that the mapping API would allow people to map a gazing ball, mary in a shell, or gaudy santa claus down to the indivual house without some help from other data sources. I suppose I could buy the Google Maps hacks book and it would give me what I need to know. Maybe it's time for a trip to the book store.