kumicitのブックマーク / 2009年4月27日

Gallery: Flickr users make accidental maps

This map of the east coast of the US was built entirely from geotagged Flickr photos (Image: David Crandall) Billions of photos have now been uploaded to the internet, and many are tagged with text descriptions. Some are even geotagged – stamped with the latitude and longitude coordinates at which the image was taken. David Crandall and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyse

kumicit 2009/04/27

「Flickrにたまった大量のフォトの撮影場所分布を集計すると、都市ではNew Yorkが首位、撮影スポットとしてはベスト4までをLondonが占めた」　PicasaGoogleだと分布は違うだろうか。

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Anxiety Over Flu Virus Grinds Mexico City to a Halt

MEXICO CITY, April 26 -- Six days a week, Luis Enrique Herrera rode his bicycle to work, a round-trip journey of nearly 20 miles. He worked with his hands as an auto mechanic and seemed to his relatives a healthy 35-year-old man, which is why they did not feel overly worried when he had to go to the hospital. "We thought he had a common cold, something normal," said his younger brother, Gabriel He