European detail map of Flickr and Twitter locations

Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.

Reminds me of the cover art for King Crimson's Islands.

I should have replaced this with another image with more detail and better choice of projection.

Comments and faves

  1. a blackbird, straup, 27ray, Louve Alpha, and 602 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. dbr Atl (23 months ago | reply)

    very cool photo.

  3. AGrinberg (23 months ago | reply)

    I want to go where it's black.

  4. Eric Fischer (23 months ago | reply)

    And then you can post some pictures from there and fill in the gaps!

  5. natasayu (23 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic Shot!

  6. Dawn Woodhouse (23 months ago | reply)

    Congratulations on Explore!!! That's a fantastic image.

    Click HERE if you have the time

  7. Dawn Woodhouse (23 months ago | reply)

    Trying to figure out how you made this image!

  8. hedbavny (23 months ago | reply)

    Great idea! Wonderful picture!

  9. Sprengben [why not get a friend] (23 months ago | reply)

    Woow, an awesome Photo, it reall deserves Explore!!!
    Come on over to my latest shot if you like.
    www.flickr.com/photos/sprengben/5884215170/

  10. This photo was invited and added to the Photo Infos group.

  11. andrea maini (23 months ago | reply)

    + + + nice shot + + +

  12. mabovo (23 months ago | reply)

    Looks like a chamaleon plenty of pearls on his back.

  13. Gem Images (23 months ago | reply)

    It's a busy world.....

  14. Fer Montero (23 months ago | reply)

    Like your comment

  15. unexxx (23 months ago | reply)

    Lovely picture!

  16. trisgti (23 months ago | reply)

    really interesting concept.
    totally reminds me of the night pictures of Europe from the ISS.
    guess that's not really a surprise when you think about it!

    --
    Seen in the interestingness archives. (?)

  17. Alexander Steinhof (23 months ago | reply)

    Awesome picture, great!

    Greetings Alex
    My website: web-done.de

  18. guzaeraholo (23 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic! how do you do it?

  19. Paul.S.Hemmings (23 months ago | reply)

    No one in England is working.

  20. George.m. (23 months ago | reply)

    Impressive!!

  21. Jacob F. (23 months ago | reply)

    how the heck did you do this?

  22. •°Carly°• (23 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful shot!! congrats for explore! :) GREAT WORK!

  23. feichtnerc [deleted] (23 months ago | reply)

    Great idea! Based on that photo, one could judge, that the most active internet users are in the netherlands and the uk.

  24. rgctobin (23 months ago | reply)

    Based on that photo, one could also judge that the most densely populated regions in Europe are the Netherlands, the Rhine-Ruhr region, and southern England.

    Great graphic. There aren't many tweet-only locations in Europe judging by this. Spain and Turkey have patches but most of the rest of Europe is flickring or doing both.

  25. Nicolay* (23 months ago | reply)

    incredible...!

  26. Blau Zahl (23 months ago | reply)

    Can you redo this in a slightly different map projection?

  27. hipydeus (23 months ago | reply)

    Europe is loosing about 2000 square meters of land "evey minute". I dont want to think about how such a map will look in the near future

  28. RozHall (23 months ago | reply)

    These are amazing

  29. dirk.jan (23 months ago | reply)

    Great work!

  30. VortexV (23 months ago | reply)

    What the hell, you can literally see the outlines of the Dutch border! How can that be? This explains the relative prosperity of the Germans, they're all working! That, or there isn't anything worth taking a picture of or tweeting about there.

    And hipydeus, Europe is losing its biodiversity and its scientific elite but I'm pretty sure its not losing land. Especially not with the preposterous rate you are suggesting. Infact, when the Dutch aren't busy tweeting they are actually reclaiming land from water by means of poldering.
    Where did you hear this anyway? FoxNews, your local Church?

  31. Just Marina (22 months ago | reply)

    Amazing! I can see the area I'm from; the black spot in the middle of Norway. It is so sparsely populated there's more moose and sheep there than people, but they neither tweet nor post to Flickr. Neither do the people, it seems.

  32. TCorp (22 months ago | reply)

    Netherlands FTW

  33. Just me, Aline (22 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic!!!!

  34. Halley Alexa (22 months ago | reply)

    Wow, that's gorgeous.

  35. parelvisser01 (22 months ago | reply)

    that's why you use flickr as well... ;)

  36. TJ Gaspar Sampaio (22 months ago | reply)

    i would love to see one of lisbon's ... only.

  37. pedrocamposcosta (22 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic! can you do from Lisbon?

  38. www.sevillaonline.es (22 months ago | reply)

    Looks almost exactly like a nightly satellite shot. Would be interresting to compare, not from an iphone though ;)
    BTW funny to see how all of holland is white

  39. peterpur (22 months ago | reply)

    very impressive. you should take the pictures to some print-on-demand-poster-shop and sell them online. btw. nice to find someone who knows king crimson :D

  40. ARMLE (22 months ago | reply)

    Very cool, featured here.

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