Thursday, October 6, 2011

Mapping the world with Flickr and Twitter

8:36 AM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post


self-described map geek Eric Fischer released a batch of fresh data visualizations Flickr and Twitter merging geographic data. Use the title or see something say something, he produced pictures for London below, as well as 34 more, including New York, Barcelona, ??Baltimore, Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Los Angeles , Mexico, Washington DC, San Francisco, Rotterdam ... Worthing and no.

Photo by Eric Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved

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  • points system used for photos on Flickr, Twitter for blue and white for two - all the data in publicly available API Flickr and Twitter. To some extent, the density of the density reflects the proportion of different traffic of the city, drank with Flickr, geographic visualizations tendon to reflect a more photogenic cultural consensus or tourist sites.
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comments for this image on Flickr, 40m Fischer said on the subject takes a few minutes to set up data files and 3 minutes to produce the image. He added that is not included in the whole of Berlin ("not much use Twitter he reported," which is interesting).

"There is not much technology behind it," Fischer Explain. "It's a C program that runs through the photos / tweets in chronological order, oldest most vivid and plotting his resignation from the brightness of the points that are not for the first time we only later.

"Points are allowed to disseminate Also a few pixels when there is record of the year an additional point that is already drawn, with the brightness falling exponentially as the point is really HIS GETS Top Additional drawn from Intended location. Each pixel is the area a bit weird to 25.2 square miles smaller because the region has made the whole image of the world too big for Flickr to let me message. "

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