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Neighborhood Boundaries with Flickr
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Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST
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Neighborhood Boundaries <http://boundaries.tomtaylor.co.uk/> by Tom
Taylor<http://www.tomtaylor.co.uk/>uses Flickr
Shapefiles <http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/>
and Yahoo!
Geoplanet <http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/> "to show you where the world
thinks its neighbors are." Yahoo! provides access to the Where on Earth
(WOE) database, which attempts to describe locations as a hierarchy. For
example - a town belongs to a city, a city to a county, a county to a state.
The Flickr API stores shape files identified by the WOE ID. Here's the
punchline. The shapefiles are built using only the latitude and longitude
from geotagged photos on Flickr. There's no GIS involved here.

Why this matters, I can't really say. I think it's mostly to show how much
data is stored in geotagged Flickr photos. I'm no GIS expert though. Anyone
care to comment on the significance?

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