TagMaps Toolkit

Based on their first experiment to Visualizing the Crowd’s “Mental Map” Using Flickr Geotagged Images, Yahoo! Research Berkeley has now introduced their TagMaps toolkit with a sample applications (World Explorer, Night Explorer and Trip Explorer). The size of the tags reflects their importance. The bigger the tag, the more “important” for location and the given zoom level, tag frequency, uniqueness, user identity and social factor.
Tagmaps Barcelona
World explorer in Barcelona

Relation to my thesis: An example to reveal user-generated location information. The Night Explorer takes into consideration the timeliness of the location information.

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One Response to “TagMaps Toolkit”

  1. 7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » Defining Neighborhoods Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    […] there are new sources to implicitly reveal the crowd “mental maps”. This has mainly been done by via tag maps such as the ones generated by WorldExplorer. In Tracing […]

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