Photos Around Me

Live Tile and fullscreen Windows Store App showing photos taken around your current Geolocation

Top rated free Windows 8 App. Displays a fullscreen slideshow and a Live Tile cycling photos taken around your current Geolocation by Flickr users. Swiping left and right in fullscreen flips through photos manually.
A slideout panel displays additional information like name, distance of photo to your location, and a link to a map showing where photo was taken. Great to find out about venues and points of interests !

Fun App to use when you travel often and wonder what exciting places are nearby.

Release 8
- updated Win 8 app version to also use https instead of http

Release 7
- changed flickr urls to https, after Flickr API change
- added Share charm support to share photo by using Share Charm
- UI improvements

Release 6:
- mouse cursor hiding
- set image as Lockscreen

Release 4:
- added Swipe Left and Swipe Right gestures to skip to next photo or go back to previous.
- added a clickable Link to show photo location on a map.

Release 3:
- added a legend panel displaying name, comment and distance of photo taken to current location.

Coming soon:
- share image
- new logo

Download: App Store Page (Windows 8.0 and 8.1 version)  - production-version