The Geotaggers' World Atlas #2: London

Locals and tourists version

The cluster south of the river at the east side of the map is Greenwich. The one in the west is Kew Gardens.

Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY_SA

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  1. ★

    sonyanews, Dragisa Krsmanovic, Sharif Sami Salah, Mykel Deitz, and 244 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Alan Wentworth (36 months ago | reply)

    These are beautiful.

  3. Cooney-Hughes (36 months ago | reply)

    Like wisps of smoke - both ephemeral and fragile.
    Beautiful.
    Thanks for sharing

  4. Yersinia (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called London Maps, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  5. dd21207 (36 months ago | reply)

    I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
    Near where the charter’d Thames does flow

    But it is quite beautiful!

  6. gingerblah justin (36 months ago | reply)

    really awesome work! in a strange way reminds me of some of my drawings

  7. This photo was invited and added to the London Maps group.

  8. Eric Fischer (36 months ago | reply)

    Thanks!

  9. Jim the Chin (36 months ago | reply)

    A thing of beauty, Eric...
    So how many people are on here? And over what sort of timescale?
    Just... How did you do this? It's A.Mazing

  10. MarkLandonPhotography (36 months ago | reply)

    seen on flickrblog. Great work !!

  11. vitaminpk (36 months ago | reply)

    These maps are very exciting. Very original. There will be a lot of interest in them!

  12. Eric Fischer (36 months ago | reply)

    Thanks! It looks like the London map has data from 73351 people. The time scale is everything that I have been able to get from the search API, but half of it is since mid-2008.

  13. @andymatthews (36 months ago | reply)

    Incredible use of data!

  14. Soulview Photography (36 months ago | reply)

    "hey, I´m exactly this line!"
    Awesome stuff, this is incredible! A very different way to show the city´s beauty. Just wow...

  15. (deaf mute) (36 months ago | reply)

    A whole lotta tagging going on!
    --
    Seen in your The Geotaggers' World Atlas set. (?)

  16. luis . 1993 [deleted] (36 months ago | reply)

    abstract = GREAT

  17. kinetic lensman (36 months ago | reply)

    Superb!

  18. VanDerFoto (36 months ago | reply)

    Awesome

  19. Creeping Bobbism (36 months ago | reply)

    Just saw this one featured on Londonist. Well done; these are fantastic!

  20. flog.co.nz (36 months ago | reply)

    Since a geotagged photo is a dot, how did you generate it into a line?

  21. Kew on Flickr (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Your Kew, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  22. This photo was invited and added to the Your Kew group.

  23. jen_kavanagh (36 months ago | reply)

    These are so beautiful - are you considering selling prints? They would look amazing framed.

  24. michald* (36 months ago | reply)

    Mesmerising

  25. whatsthatpicture (36 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant - great use of data, and visually stunning.

    Worth also looking at this overlayed on Google Maps (once zoomed in, toggle the overlay image on and off to see where you are) or on Google Earth (allows dynamic adjustment of overlay image transparency)

    [EDIT 12/2012: looks like that kml file that gave the image overlay has gone walkabouts from my server. If I find it I'll put it back, but in the meantime those two links won't work :( ]

  26. Martin Burns (36 months ago | reply)

    @whatsthatpicture: Very Nice Google Map Overlay - confirms as I thought a cluster on the Emirates Stadium.

    But also one on Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, which was a great discovery.

  27. bunchoftits [deleted] (36 months ago | reply)

    this is cool.

  28. Paolo Margari (36 months ago | reply)

    great work!

  29. Yersinia (36 months ago | reply)

    Clusters on Wembley, London Wetlands Centre, Crystal Palace, Canary Wharf, and the O2, among others.

    And if I go large, I can see little clusters that I am probably responsible for out in South East London.

  30. Eric Fischer (36 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for the Google Earth overlay and the location identifications!

  31. dan.bolser (36 months ago | reply)

    Nice!

    I'd really love to see this worked up in the way outlined here:

    * funktopia.net/index.php/The_Eiffel_Tower_Proj ect
    * funktopia.net/index.php/Talk:The_Eiffel_Tower _Project

    But that is a massive undertaking!

  32. whatsthatpicture (36 months ago | reply)

    Eric Fischer wrote

    Thanks for the Google Earth overlay and the
    location identifications!

    I was tempted to add notes on image with main locations but sometimes people don't like that - what do you think?

  33. Eric Fischer (36 months ago | reply)

    I don't know how well location annotations would work at this scale, but if they are distinguishable, it sounds good to me.

  34. AdrianWarren (36 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant!

  35. Gareth Hart (36 months ago | reply)

    This is superb!

  36. TheVRChris (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Thematic Mapping, Graphs and Geodata Visualization, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  37. This photo was invited and added to the Thematic Mapping, Graphs and Geodata Visualization group.

  38. pi.zwsk (28 months ago | reply)

    Great work and idea !

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