Flickr Fruits #35 [Mapping & Topography]
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Paris Mapcut – Studio Kmo
Eric Fischer’s Geotaggers’ World Atlas set contains a serious of maps derived from photographers timestamps and geotags found on Flickr. The data has been used to calculate the speed at which the photographers were travelling and plotted on OpenStreetMap. In all there are 50 cities covered, each with density paths indicating the most navigated and photographed areas. Can the Geotaggers’ World Atlas be interpreted as map of tourism and sightseeing? The Locals and Tourist set goes some way to answering this question.
Studio Kmo has a group of sets dealing with cut-out and drawn maps, predominantly cities, which exude a staggering amount of graphic detail. The cites of New York, Paris and Singapore are covered in stencilled form, among others. There are also sets documenting the development of the paper cut pieces themselves.
The Linear Landscapes set by Leonardo Solaas contains a series of algorithmic topologies generated by sampling images, and transforming their colours into striated configurations of lines. We are reminded of landscape contours as viewed from a distance as well as geomorphological features at closer inspection.
