SnapMyLife, the leading mobile-web community for instantly saving, sharing, and discovering photos from locations around the world, today announced the launch of a new mapping feature for all phones. With Photo Maps, anyone with a mobile phone and mobile web access can see where the latest community pictures are being taken, whether nearby or halfway around the world. It’s now easy for all mobile phone users to use rich mapping and location features – no download required.

SnapMyLife enables anyone with a camera phone and mobile web access to snap and share photos, easily make friends, add favorites, comment, and chat. Now with Photo Maps, any mobile phone user can also:

See an interactive, global map and click on pins to see in pictures what’s going on near them, right now
Search for recent interesting pictures by street, town, or country location
Tag photos with a location (or add location automatically from the SnapMyLife iPhone application)
See where geo-tagged photos were taken, and find nearby pictures with a single click
The new Photo Maps feature builds upon SnapMyLife’s location-aware photo-sharing application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch launched in July 2008. “We are excited to expand our iPhone application mapping functionality to all mobile phone users,” said George Grey, CEO and founder, SnapMyLife. “Now, users of any phone – from feature phones to smart phones – have quick and simple access to location, enabling them to connect with people and places near them, or near a place of interest. Users from all over the world take interesting pictures each day with their mobile devices, and we believe that delivering location features to all phones will enhance SnapMyLife as a mobile entertainment destination.”

SnapMyLife has grown rapidly since its launch in April 2008 and now boasts 500,000 registered users from around the world, 1.5+ million unique monthly visitors, and 15+ million monthly page views. Last month, SnapMyLife users uploaded and shared geo-tagged photos from over 100 countries. Today, people from all over the world, in cities from Aiea (Hawaii) to Zwaag (Holland), are sharing their mobile photos. To see where people are taking photos right now, go to http://www.snapmylife.com/maps.