Stunning Maps Visualizing Twitter, Flickr Usage (PHOTOS)

What a quaint illustration of a civilization becoming one. Electronic collective consciousness, cool!
I like to think that this is evidence of becoming more unified, which will hopefully usher in a more responsible perspective to us Earthlings for each other.

Peace,
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reply to post by SLAYER69

there are some cool pic s there.
Does no one live in the middle of america? or is that hillbilly territory?

reply to post by Bixxi3


Depending on where exactly you're looking they could be any one of several locations.
Deserts, Mountains and the vast farmlands of the mid-west etc.

"The Hillbilly's" are mostly associated with the hill people of the Appalachian Culture in the South East part of the US which is obscured on the map by the lights.

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You sure are right about flying into LA.

While I have flown into all the major airports in LA/OC from various locations and in differing conditions, there was one that I will never forget. Was flying into Ontario (CA, of course) from east coast, and a storm system had cleared out the air about 12 hours before. Don't know if you've ever flown into Ontario from the east, but our flight path was low over the San Bernadino mountains, revealing the light jewels of normally ugly suburban sprawl nestled in the valleys. I lived in So Cal for most of my 50 years, and I had never seen before (or since) it as beautiful.

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I've flown into the Basin from several different directions over the past 40+ years and have noticed in the last 10 or so years a massive growth both in size and complexity. Setting all the detrimental "Environmental factors" aside, it is a very impressive looking view while flying into the area on a clear night.

Some very cool maps.

What happened to Canada, basically dark?

Originally posted by jam321
Some very cool maps.

What happened to Canada, basically dark?

Same with North Korea.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
I asked the same thing.
Hopefully they'll release some of other locations, besides London, NY and Tokyo later.

There's a "world map", except it's not really a world map, I'd say less than half the world land mass is represented.

It seems like twitter dominates the southeast US and Flickr dominates the west US. I have no idea why but that's interesting.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Have you ever flown into L.A. at night?
Visually it's like first flying over and then into a giant Circuit board.

I never heard it described that way, but that's somewhat accurate. It definitely looks a lot different from the air, than other areas I've flown into.

Originally posted by Jrosh
Definately interesting pictures....I find it kind of intriguing that the middle of america seems to lack in dots compared to the coast areas.... I'm not from america, and am not sure about population density....is there that many less people in the midland, or is it that they appreciate a less technological way of life?

Probably a better indication of population density in America would be the map of lights at night that some people referenced:

geology.com...
See the satellite photo of the US at night, that's reasonably accurate regarding population density.

The lights at night has some problems showing population density in some parts of the world, like North Korea, which for the most part has very little electricity. Of course that's not the only place without electricity and a fair number of people, there are others too. So the night lights are better at estimating populations in western countries than in developing countries. Japan has probably 30% more people than the Philippines but it looks like maybe 10 times as many lights at night!