35,000,000 Flickr Photos, Mapped
Scientists at Cornell University have super - cypher the geotags of 35 million Flickr photograph , creating picture taking heatmaps for localisation around the world . Their conclusion ? citizenry really , really like taking picture of landmark . The national maps — like the one above , which evince the most photographed watershed in each of the top 20 most photographed cities — are fairly predicable , with photo density at its highest around population centers , especially bombastic , scenic ones ....