Photo Map is one of those very special Instagram features that you can find on your profile, precisely in the location tab, and that allows you to see the photos where you would have taken them, if you usually geolocate them. One of those special functionalities that have always been in this photography service and that it seems that Instagram is going to withdraw such we know today.
Instagram has confirmed to a medium that it really is deleting Map Photos having started disabling this feature for some users last week. In a statement, he maintains that: "Photo Map was not used in a general way, so we have decided to eliminate it in order to focus on other priorities."
The happiness for some of these features that for some users convert to these apps is terrible in something special. And what we have left is that if one of those functionalities is not used massively, it will finally be removed from that app. An existing functionality in the profile, in one of those tabs, and that quickly makes you see at a glance the locations of those photos taken and thus you can show them to anyone in an instant.
Anyway, Instagram not canceling other features location-based in your app. You will still be able to tag places as you upload photos and search for other photos shared by the community for a specific place. The API will also continue so that developers can get that information for public inputs.
This brings us to an Instagram that is more aimed at the competition, Snapchat with its "Stories", and focus on other ways that users share content regularly from your platform. So it would not be surprising that soon it will remove so many others that are not used massively.
