Comments on: Wait! They don't love you like I love you...

Wait! They don't love you like I love you...

Artw — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:57:07 -0800

By: Sova

Sova — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:09:09 -0800

Bizarrely, the team's findings show that the fifth-most photographed place in the city is the Apple store in midtown Manhattan. Bizarre? or shocking? that people are unoriginal twice in their lives, and in such a small space of time. (Oh, and SLNS.)

By: DU

DU — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:10:23 -0800

Very awesome. Some bizarre results emerged – the Apple Store in Manhattan is the fifth-most photographed place in the city among those images both geo-tagged and uploaded to Flickr. FTFT and also helps explain the result.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:13:01 -0800

Abstract (3.5 MB PDF) of the team who did the work on this, with better pictures.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:15:20 -0800

Does this account for images that aren't originally geotagged but are added to the map from within Flickr's site? Just curious, since that's how I've been putting mine on the map. I tend to not want to pinpoint caves, so I really haven't taken an interest in a device that would geotag all my pix as they were taken -- privacy and safety issues, there.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:15:39 -0800

Also, in the near future I'd like to see these kinds of maps have rollover links, complete with instant pop-up thumbnail, to every last geotagged picture. It can be done!

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:32:16 -0800

Oh bother, I was hoping for a map of haunted locations with ghostly pictures. I'd like to see a mash-up of this work, Google Streetview and Microsoft's Photosynth (previously x4). You could start by wandering around in the lower definition Streetview, then get hot-spots of user-generated images, with some annotation for the fancy-pants walk-throughs at more interesting locations (like the shiny Apple stores).

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:45:40 -0800

Some bizarre results emerged – the Apple Store in Manhattan is the fifth-most photographed place in the city among those images both geo-tagged and uploaded to Flickr. So people are trying out their new iPhones by snapping a photo and uploading it?

By: PigAlien

PigAlien — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:57:05 -0800

I love living in the future!!! All of this stuff is so awesome to watch unfold! Even the Matrix wasn't this exciting, since it was just a replica of our reality -- this is enhanced reality! Filthy Light Thief, that will come, and probably soon!

By: PigAlien

PigAlien — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:57:37 -0800

Haha, Pollomacho, that's exactly what I thought first! I'm sure it's correct too...

By: Glarg

Glarg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:09:27 -0800

Yeah yeah yeah...s

By: tapeguy

tapeguy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:11 -0800

What would be nice is if Flickr allowed you to search through geotagged stuff and also specify when those photos were shot/uploaded. So then you could look at, say, photos of your street from last winter when it snowed, or from two years ago before the Starbucks down the street opened up, or whenever.

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:54:18 -0800

Neat. The geotag map makes a good plot of human*wealth density. It reminds me of this classic.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:11:39 -0800

That's astonishingly nifty.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:26:35 -0800

And how exactly does this technology allow rogue parkour agents to screw with shipping containers for Hubertus Bigend?

By: djgh

djgh — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:03 -0800