Hi,

A quick note to let you know there are two new API methods,
flickr.places.getInfo and flickr.places.getInfoByURL:

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/?method=flickr.places.getInfo

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/?method=flickr.places.getInfoByUrl

The first method, which allows you to retrieve information for a place
with a WOE or "Places" ID, was actually released last week as part of
the announcements for the clustr-ed shapefiles and polylines now
available via the API:

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/

Both API methods return the same data structure, with the only
difference being that the latter allows to do a lookup for a place using
it's "places" URL. For example :

(http://www.flickr.com/places)/United+States/California/San+Francisco

Finally, the flickr.places.resolvePlaceId and
flickr.places.resolvePlaceUrl methods have been officially deprecated.

They won't be removed but going forward you should use getInfo and
getInfoByURL respectively.

Cheers,