Roll Your Ain Meta-Data Photograph Map

Flickr as well as Panoramaio information has been used inwards the past times to exercise some genuinely beautiful estrus maps visualizing the areas where people lead keep taken the well-nigh photographs. It is ever amazing to zoom inwards on these visualizations to run across how maps of towns as well as cities tin emerge but from geo-tagged photograph data.

There is right away a novel application which allows y'all to ready upward a map of a place yourself but past times using the tags inwards geo-tagged Flickr photos.


Darkways is a beautiful interactive map of the basis visualizing the locations where photos submitted to Flickr were taken. Each geo-tagged photograph uploaded to Flickr is represented on the map past times a yellowish dot.

The map provides a fascinating insight every bit to where people are taking photos roughly the world. Sightsmap is a like estrus map of the basis - but based on the publish of photographs submitted to Panoramio. This estrus map is based exclusively on the publish of available Panoramio photos for an area. The nighttime as well as the bluish areas stand upward for areas where fewer photos lead keep been submitted, the ruby areas demonstrate where to a greater extent than photos lead keep been taken as well as the yellowish areas demonstrate the well-nigh photographed locations.

Darkways as well as Sightsmap both role the photograph information to exercise static estrus map overlays. Mapr from Pimpampum.net nevertheless is a novel tool which allows y'all to dynamically charge Flickr photograph information past times geographical tags. This allows y'all to exercise your ain map of a place past times loading to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than geolocated photos (using the photos' tags).

For example, the screenshot at the altitude of this page shows the photograph map of San Francisco created from tags for 'Goldengate', Sanfrancisco', 'Marketst' as well as 'Treasureisland'. You tin exercise a like map for yourself, for anywhere inwards the world, but past times typing inwards your ain geographical tags.

Creating y'all ain maps inwards this agency for your local expanse is a lot of fun, However y'all tin also persuasion some pre-prepared maps past times selecting from the examples linked to on the Mapr home-page.