What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
A proud member of Oxfordbloggers.com.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow me on twitter
- See my photography on flickr
- Current listening on last.fm
- What I’m linking to on del.icio.us
- My tumblr powered scrapbook of miscellanea
Flickr and neighbourhood
Have you ever wondered what Flickr does with all that geolocation data it gathers from our pictures (apart from pinning them to a map and working out the ratio of kittens to sunsets in a given area)? Well one of the things it does is is generate shapefiles of regional neighbourhoods to better work out where your picture was taken.
Now Tom Taylor has built a tool which allows you to visualise the boundaries of these neighbourhoods and see how Flickr views your part of the world.
Cool stuff.