Tag Archives: flickr

Not a subset of the data. All of it

May 20th, 2010

With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system. Every photo, in every size, plus the completely untouched original. (which we store for you indefinitely, whether or not you pay us) Every tag, every comment, every note, every people tag, every fave. Also your stats, […]

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Volumes of data

February 9th, 2010

2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!

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Dumb solutions

February 8th, 2010

Kellan Elliott-McCrea on his response whenever he’s asked “How does Flickr do XYZ?”. We generally try do the dumbest thing that will work first. And that’s usually as far as we get. There’s an elegance to dumb solutions.

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Interview about the Oxford Flickr Exhibition

October 3rd, 2009

Last night the Oxford Flickr Group launched our own exhibition in local gallery The Jam Factory (I’ll blog about this later, once I’ve caught up on sleep and things have settled down a bit). This morning I was interviewed by Phil Mercer on BBC Radio Oxford about the exhibition. My first ever radio interview. For your pleasure (and […]

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Flickr and neighbourhood

November 21st, 2008

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.

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