Flickr recently made a loads of interesting geo information available, by plotting the outside edge of geotagged photos they’ve managed to roughly show where a ‘place’ is according to people that have taken photos in that area.
Here’s Digbeth:
Interestingly it looks like our new home on Fazeley Street, doesn’t quite qualitfy as ‘Digbeth’ yet. If you’ve got some photos of Digbeth on Flickr, why not spend a few minutes adding them to the map so we can represent where we the true shape of Digbeth.
(p.s. want to play with your own neighbourhood shape? checkout The Shape of Alpha plus some sample code from tomtaylor)
November 17th, 2008 at 8:42 pm (#)
[...] LinksThe shape of DigbethThe Hearing Aid: Monotonix / Mirror! Mirror! / The Black & Reds @ The Rainbow, Wednesday 12th [...]
November 17th, 2008 at 11:52 pm (#)
[...] The Shape of Digbeth, ladies and gentlemen, is a cat. If you should encounter this cat please have a supply of catnip with you. [...]
November 18th, 2008 at 9:02 am (#)
[...] Subtrakt (kudos to them for recently winning a gong) point to a fascinating new ‘place-shaping’ new feature available via Google Maps… [...]
November 19th, 2008 at 2:11 am (#)
Great job.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:16 am (#)
[...] apparently very brainy Tom Martin of Substrakt has defined the shape of Digbeth by digbeth (shaped?) tags in flickr. Not a bad way to start. Hat [...]
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm (#)
[...] The Shape of Digbeth, ladies and gentlemen, is a cat. If you should encounter this cat please have a supply of catnip with you. [...]