The first step in our application will require us to get data from Flickr. We'll request some data and save it locally.
The first step, is to figure out what sort of data we want to get. To simplify things, let's start with KML data. We'll use the URL we mentioned before, but we'll also specify a tag. Let's use
birdas a tag. Open up this URL in your web browser, and you should be able to download it as a KML file from http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?format=kml&tags=bird.Save the file as
flickr_data.kmland place it in your map directory.Open up the file in your text editor and take a look at it. We won't be editing it, but just take a look to see how the data is structured. Notice that there are
styletags—if we want, we can directly apply the styles from the file to our map (as we'll see soon).