We are very pleased to announce the latest feature to be added to Scatterpic – Near Me.

Perfect for people traveling with their iPhone or iPad, the Near Me feature allows you to play Scatterpic with images taken near to your current location.

This feature relies on a feature known as geotagging – the act of associating a photograph with the geographic position at which it was taken.

Some modern cameras and phones can automatically tag the location of photographs using GPS – Global Positioning Satellites – the same technology that drives your in car sat-nav. Alternatively, photographers can manually add location information to their snaps.

Either way, the Scatterpic app for iPhone takes advantage of this information – combined with Apple’s in-built facility to determine your current location – to give you fun photo-based puzzles with photos taken near where you are!

How do we do it? Well, it’s all thanks to Flickr. Every time you play a Near Me game of Scatterpic, we search Flickr in realtime for photos taken near your current location, taking advantage of the fact that many photos on Flickr are geotagged.

We hope you enjoy this new feature – yet another way for you to discover Flickr content relevant to you!

Scatterpic is a novel iPhone app allowing you to play puzzle games based on interesting photographs. Scatterpic is fun to play, suitable for all the family and child friendly, and has fresh content every day! Scatterpic is available on the App Store.