Photographer Eric Fischer has a fascination for cartography. In this latest See something or say something series of maps, Fischer investigates the spread of Twitter and Flick across the globe. He makes uses of geotag information to show the locations where Flickr photos were taken, these are the red dots. The blue dots show the location of tweets and the white dots indicate that both Flickr photos and tweets were found at that location.
Have a look Fischer’s beautiful data visualizations after the jump.
Click the images to see them bigger.
Jakarta
Rome
New York
London
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Sydney
Europe
North America
World Map
To see more maps (there are 48 in total), head straight to Fischer’s See something or say something Flickr set.
[via Jim Sher on Google+]
5 replies on “Your Tweets and Photos as Beautiful Heat Maps”
Looks like Africa has become the Dark Continent again whereas Tweets are concerned.
Hectic
@NiteFenix I just bloody typed the same thing, then I saw your comment. But buggered if I’m going to waste it!
And unsurprisingly Africa is still the dark continent. Seems like a raw deal man.
I noticed that too. Fischer’s world map bears a resemblance to Chris Harrison’s worldwide Internet Map, where Africa is once again in the dark.
That bright light there in Gauteng…
all me.
Would that make you the sole twit in Gauteng? I keed, I keed :P