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The Inspired Mag has compiled a great list of Flickr and Google Groups that showcase a wide variety of information graphics and visualization all ready for your perusal.

Today, we bring you a major round-up of the best 35 Flickr Groups to find all kinds of designs, either from major newspapers and magazine, personal portfolios or vintage maps and graphics. Some of those are much more active than others, and it’s pretty obvious you’ll find that many of the submissions are repeated in several Groups – that means that some users are, naturally, more concerned that others in showing off their work.

Even so, we tried to gather Groups that have some level of interest besides those common submissions, so, we hope you enjoy them!

via Top 35 Flickr Groups for Infographics and Data Visualization | Inspired Magazine.

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Flickr, the popular Yahoo-owned photography sharing site, also plays host to many infographic and artistic products.  FlowingData’s Nathan has compiled a list of 7 groups for infographic artists to check out:

I’ve always thought of Flickr as a place where I can share my photos with friends and family; however, I’m starting to see there’s a whole lot more than that. It’s a great place to find inspiration for infographics and visualizations or to just browse the giganto collection of work from others.

via 7 Visualization Groups On Flickr to Find Inspiration | FlowingData.

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Andy Woodruff has developed an interesting algorithm that processes images on Flickr for a specific geographical area and builds a colormap, similar to a heatmap, of the various colors found in that area.

This being a blog about maps, I of course mean Harvard not as a school but as a geographic entity. What color is the landscape, physical and cultural? When people look around at whatever interests them, what colors are they looking at?

Independently mapping the intensity and hue of the various colors, and connecting it with the geo-tagging data for the images, creates some pretty interesting maps.  Still a work-in-progress, but I look forward to seeing where it leads.

via Cartogrammar.com | Blog » Flickr as a paintbrush. via Information Aesthetics

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We first covered this back in July but it’s back in the news again with more fancy reconstructions.

It took 500 computer processors 13 hours to match 150,000 photos for Rome’s landmarks, and eight more hours to construct a 3-D image of them. Venice involved 250,000 images, which took 27 hours to match and 38 hours to reconstruct. By contrast, using the algorithms on which Photosynth is based, it would have taken 500 processors at least a year to match 250,000 photos.

Not only is it just pretty and fun, one could easily imagine the same algorithm being applied to a wide variety of uses: Accident reconstruction, Military planning, Urban environment mapping and study.

via Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users’ Photos | Popular Science.

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Researchers at the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory have designed a system capable of reconstructed 3D models of cities from images available on Flickr.  By aligning all of the images & performing some 3D registrations, they can extract 3D points.

In their project ‘Building Rome in a Day’ the group considered the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. The aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images. All this to be done in a day.

Look after the break to see a 3D Flythrough of Dubrovnik (Shown above) built using their software.  Full details of the system are available on their site.

via Digital Urban: Building Rome in a Day: A 3D City via Flickr.

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At the recent WWW2009 Conference, a group from Cornell University presented a paper that investigated roughly 35million geotagged photos available on Flickr and showed an analysis based on text tags, image data, and geospacial data to reveal geographic and visual information about the world.

For instance, their findings show that the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, which opened in May 2006, is more popular than many other well-known tourist sites such as St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the Reichstag in Berlin and the Washington Monument in the US capital.

The paper is available as a PDF for your viewing pleasure.

Mapping the World’s Photos: Extensive Flickr Photo Analysis – information aesthetics.

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