The World According to Geotagged Photos
Written on 31st October 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Flickr has over 90 million geotagged photos right now. With all the smartphones (we need a new word for that!) with GPS and cameras on the market more and more photos are automatically geotagged.
So what would the world look like if you took these geotagged
photos and tried to figure out what countries look like based on just the Geotagged information? The smart people at Flickr did just that and plotted cities, countries and continents around the world. From the Flickr Blog:
“If we plotted all the geotagged photos associated with a particular WOE ID, would we have enough data to generate a mostly accurate contour of that place? Not a perfect representation, perhaps, but something more fine-grained than a bounding box. It turns out we can”
The Flickr DevBlog also explains how to use their API to build your own geoTagged applications. Check it our for the images or to copy/paste the code samples to build your own cool stuff.
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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Oct 31, 2008
I’ve never geotagged a single pic on Flickr, but this persuaded me. Will do next time!
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By Bob Boynton on Oct 31, 2008
I really like this idea as I have a bunch of places I would like to geotag. But phones with cameras take lousy pictures, and I have not figured out how to get a good camera that will geotag — that does not cost an arm and a leg.
Does anyone know about cameras?
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