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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 photographed place in the city is the Apple store in midtown Manhattan. (via New Scientist)

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Nina Simone - Gin House Blues (live - via tracks)

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Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. That’s a really fun idea. More about Tweebots.
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

That’s a really fun idea. More about Tweebots.