That map you see above isn’t a picture of the earth, seen from space. Rather, it’s a map of the locations attached to every tweet and Flickr photo. What results is a remarkable picture of how each ...

Flickr is now using maps from the Open Street Map project to improve cities where the maps are lacking. First on the list is Beijing, which used to be a big brown blob. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in ...

No, these are not more satellite images of how our planet looks under the cover of darkness. Instead, they are visualizations of Twitter and Flickr use, created by map enthusiast Eric Fischer. The ...

In 2011 programmer and digital mapmaker Eric Fischer published a series of maps that shows where people are tweeting as well as the locations of Flickr pictures. He called the series "See something or ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nokia Maps continues to be a major part of the Finnish company’s overall strategy, and Flickr is the latest ...

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Flickr has partnered with Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia to bring improved mapping and geotagging to its millions of users around the world. The Yahoo-owned image and video-hosting service has ...

What would a map of the world look like if it was built from the bottom up? Flickr wants to find out Despite Yahoo's travails, Flickr continues to do some very interesting work. According to this post ...

Photo sharing website Flickr is showing off some nice-looking new maps with considerably more detail than previous versions. The new look and additional map data for Flickr's maps come from Nokia Maps ...

In a neat combination of technologies, innovative blogger Matt Haughey posted Google Maps' satellite image of his childhood neighborhood on photo-sharing site Flickr. Then he annotated sections of his ...

The enormous dataset provides a global picture of “what the world is paying attention to”, the researchers say. They ran statistical analyses to identify the more important clusters on each map. Next ...