Shapetiles by Aaron Straup Cope is a crowdsourced cartographic produced from millions of geotagged Flickr photos. Contours emerge from the mass of points, allowing for shapes to be detected from millions of geo-locations. These intersecting shapefiles can then be visualised.

The emergent graphic shows the bounded shapes of neighbourhoods, cities, regions, nations, and continents, demonstrating how a rich image of the world can be constructed from the bottom up, as the result of millions of individual photographic events.

See Also: Emergence

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Shapetiles by Aaron Straup Cope is a crowdsourced cartographic produced from millions of geotagged Flickr photos. Contours emerge from the mass of points, allowing for shapes to be detected from millions of geo-locations. These intersecting shapefiles can then be visualised.

The emergent graphic shows the bounded shapes of neighbourhoods, cities, regions, nations, and continents, demonstrating how a rich image of the world can be constructed from the bottom up, as the result of millions of individual photographic events.

See Also: Emergence