Saturday, March 28, 2009

MIT software engineers mapping flickr



(un)photographed Spain from senseablecity on Vimeo.
"By pulling GPS metadata from uploaded photos (and then skinning that data in a neat 3D visualization), users can see how photographers/tourists see a given area. There's overlap, yes, but that's entirely the point. It's a project more about capturing stereotypes (like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Statue of Liberty in NY), than giving a Google Street View objective turn by turn of an area."

check it out here

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