European travel patterns
60,000 trips (of 20 or more miles each) through 750,000 randomly-chosen geotags, grouped with 10-mile radius, from the Twitter streaming API, August, 2011.
Are the routes realistic at all? I really have no idea. The especially heavy Twitter usage in the Netherlands and England has got to skew things.
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Simon Oud, antimega, •Don Johnson, Capelle.R, and 31 other people added this photo to their favorites.
♫ Lion ♫ (16 months ago | reply)
Traffic jam in the Eurotunnel;)
wisze (16 months ago | reply)
Great map! The strong route through the Balkan countries is surprising. In the Netherlands the whole road network is visible.
nællo (16 months ago | reply)
Nice one! I'm surprised that so many folks seem to travel the Hamburg-Copenhagen-Malmö-Stockholm-Passage. There really seems to be some demand for the tunnel they are planning...
Zioluc (16 months ago | reply)
veins through Europe
davidkirsten (16 months ago | reply)
The Orient Express comes through loud and clear!
mhsorens (15 months ago | reply)
Great Work!
marmota-b (9 months ago | reply)
I think Twitter / non-Twitter really must skew things. There's very little of Central Europe, yet I doubt the traffic is so much lower here (Prague is one of the most visited cities in Europe, after all). I do not understand how you make these things, but I think something similar to the "See Something or Say Something" map - Twitter and Flickr combined - may give you a better idea.
I also think this would look better with outlines of Europe underneath, so one could get a better idea where these routes are.
Still, fantastic work with all these! Thank you very much for sharing.