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Flickr. 24 hours of geotagged photos
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Daniel Catt from Flickr maps 24 hours worth of geotagged photos on a 3D globe:
All the data was pulled down (using Processing, of all things) via the API, and probably took around 12 minutes (when it's behaving itself) as I was being a) gentle with the servers b) was getting it as JSON which takes a while for Processing to parse each page. And then written to a flat file.
Via flowingdata.com