[Editor’s note: As more cameras and users tag their photos on upload into the Flickr pool, we can visualize where users are contributing via the above cartogram and below as 3d globe map. The cartogram source isn’t attributed, but I like how it breaks out high and medium contribution areas in blue and pink, and then shows largly unpopulated areas (but still popular to photograph in the Amazon’s case) in green, and then ocean areas in grey. Or thats my take on it 😉 Thanks Lynda!]
Republished from Flickr user Straup and RevDanCatt.
Play movie at original site, screenshot below.
So, here it is, 24 hours worth of geotagged photos (64,410) from last Monday, March 23rd. Our numbers say that around 30% are normally private, giving us a total of around 92,000 geotagged photos for that day, which is just over 1 photo geotagged per second.
All the data was pulled down (using Processing, of all things) via the API, and probably took around 12 minutes (when it’s behaving itself) as I was being a) gentle with the servers b) was getting it as JSON which takes a while for Processing to parse each page (more information here: blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/processing-json-the-new-york-…. And then written to a flat file.
Continue reading and view video at Flickr . . .
Tags: 3d globe, api, cartogram, distribution, flickr, geotag, json, lynda, photo, processing, visualization