Comments on: Reconstructing the World With Flickr http://www.laboratory4.com/2011/02/reconstructing-the-world-with-flickr/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: 0rison http://www.laboratory4.com/2011/02/reconstructing-the-world-with-flickr/comment-page-1/#comment-24767 0rison Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:27:27 +0000 http://www.laboratory4.com/?p=450#comment-24767 "Digitizing the world" can be crowdsourced in complementary ways. Simply plotting the GPS locations from which photos are taken creates surprisingly detailed maps: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17017-maps-in-flickr-photos Taking the signal-to-noise ratios between different GPS satellite signals permits the estimation of occluding buildings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYMfaEaGeME&feature=player_embedded “Digitizing the world” can be crowdsourced in complementary ways.

Simply plotting the GPS locations from which photos are taken creates surprisingly detailed maps:

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17017-maps-in-flickr-photos

Taking the signal-to-noise ratios between different GPS satellite signals permits the estimation of occluding buildings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYMfaEaGeME&feature=player_embedded

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