What the Flickr community can do for maps

Flickr and geography have a long history together: Working with the OpenStreetMap community to give photos of the Beijing olympics detailed maps in 2008 and the introduction of our own style using TileMill are two examples of this relationship. As a result, the Flickr community has one of the largest sets of carefully geotagged photos in the world. They use maps to help tell a story about the time and place where their photo was taken. All of this careful geotagging makes photos more interesting.

In this talk I discuss how map makers and others can learn from the Flickr community about the world? Also, some steps Flickr takes to learn and adapt from this data?

Related reading:

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-absence-and-the-anchor/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2011/01/08/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-2-0/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2012/07/11/designing-an-osm-map-style/

Transcript

1. What the Flickr community Can do for maps
2. What is this guy on about? Use our data. Make interfaces better e fuzzy idea of places
4. Building the Flickrs. Please wait...
5. Geoplanet (WOE): e structure
6. An interactive map
7. OpenStreetMap & Burning Man
8. New base layer (thanks Nokia)
9. anks you guys
10. ...so we have a lot of geotagged photos
11. How we see the places around us
12. 2011/01/08/ ickr-shape les-public-dataset-2-0 2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha code. ickr.com/blog/
15. Finding fakers
17. Baja Noe?!?!
18. Shapes are a decent snitch
19. others have found it useful
20. foursquare/two shes mattb/ ickrgeocoder-java github.com/ mapbox/carmen
22. ickr.com/services/api ickr.places. ndByLatLon ickr.places. nd ickr.photos.geo.getLocation ickr.com/services/shape les/2.0.1 (we could always do more, lets talk)
23. joining-data osm-bright-osx-quickstart mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/
25. 3.0 Time comparison & More frequent updates
26. Take photos! Even better, come work with us: ickr.jobs
27. Photo credits felstone/6901223947 george/16917965 schoschie/3362897286 danielelinaro/233696537 mikz/4701949351 slopetrash/5327825882 sarowen/1896056602 essgee/3490018276 ickr.com/photos/ illustration by waferbaby