I received a seemingly random email the other day through my Flickr account. At first I thought it was spam. But as it turns out, it was a legitimate notification from the East Coast Editor of Schmap.
Schmap? “What’s Schmap?” you ask? I was wondering too, so I checked it out.
Schmap is “a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.” Looking through the site, it looks like they have some pretty cool and comprehensive maps of popular tourist destinations. The interesting thing to me was that they have photos from all sorts of photographers – and lots of them.
The cool thing about Schmap is that other than the travel info it provides, it also showcases photography from all sorts of photographers from the Flickrsphere, and retains the licensing you have established there in Flickr (or gives you the ability to re-define it for Schmap).
Best of all, your photo on Schmap is linked directly to the copy of your photo within your Flickr photostream – it’s a great little way to get a little publicity for your photography! It’s not quite 15 minutes…maybe more just a snapshot of fame.
Congratulations on getting your pics noticed! An acquaintance of mine got his photos in spin magazine, national geographic etc… by being crowdsourced in this way. It’s nice to be noticed.
cool