Metropolitan Level Maps of Cyberscapes

Over the next weeks we will begin to post a range of metropolitan level maps of user generated Google placemarks. These maps illustrate one of the "cyberscapes" of these cities, i.e., the cloud of geo-coded data in cyberspace which provides an additional layer for human interaction.

Cyberscapes, consist of multiple layers, e.g., Google placemarks, Wikipedia articles, geotagged Flickr, Twitter Tweets, etc., but the metro maps are limited to user generated placemarks.

The examples of New York's and Capetown's cyberscapes below illustrate how these cyberscapes vary over location and topic. The white box in each map indicates the area for which we have data. Stay tuned....




All User Generated Placemarks
New York City, January 2009


User Generated Placemarks Referencing Crime
New York City, January 2009


All User Generated Placemarks
Cape Town, South Africa, January 2009

User Generated Placemarks Referencing Crime
Cape Town South Africa, January 2009

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