1. An interactive media display system, comprising: a touch-sensitive display surface configured to display a geographic map and receive a gesture input generated by a user on the touch-sensitive display surface, the gesture input defining a selected geographic area on the geographic map; a data store for storing map data and media data, the media data including media and metadata associated with the media, the media is selected from the group consisting of thumbnails of photographs, previews of images of photographs, lists of images, slideshows, audio clips, and video clips, and the metadata including position data indicating a geographic position at which the media was recorded; and a controller configured to receive the gesture input from the touch-sensitive display surface, and in response to the gesture input, to filter the media data based on the position data indicating the geographic position at which the media was recorded to determine a filtered media data collection that includes media associated with the selected geographic area, and to command the touch-sensitive display surface to display the media in the filtered media data collection.