April 2009
11 posts
Flickr users make accidental maps
Using geotag data attached to 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr, David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, created accurate global and city maps and identified popular snapping sites.
New York City is the most photographed city on Earth – over 12 million of the photos analysed were snapped there.
Bizarrely, the team’s findings show that the fifth-most...
World Builder
Not everyone wants a machine that’s been washed with unicorn tears.
– David Webster, General Manager for Brand Marketing at Microsoft, about the preciousness of some Mac users. (via Newsweek)