Luminous Cities

This project aims to uncover the archaeology of data traces left by social media

Our first release is of city maps based on geo-coded Flickr data.

The timeline interface enables us to 'play' the sequence of locations

We are mapping various metrics like 'date taken', 'view count', 'time of day' and 'density'

Select tags and keywords, to reveal how space is described.

Select users to see who has photographed where.

This release enables you to select multiple tags

View the geo-coded traces of Flickr users in the largest world cities, including Beijing, Cairo, Hong Kong, Tokyo.

Glimpse how urban spaces are recorded by geo-located Flickr photos in the Americas - Beunos Aires, Detroit, Mexico City, San Francisco.

Explore the data footprints left by Flickr in some European urban centres. Cities include Athens, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Venice.

Flickr Tags

Explore how space is tagged in some of the worlds Megacities.

Explore how space is tagged in cities in the Americas.

Explore how space is tagged in European urban centres.