FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

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The Gaiagi Photo Explorer shows photos from flickr and Panoramio tagged with geo locations on Google Maps. It has a convenient interface to zoom into locations of photos as well as links to the original photo pages at the photo services.

You can move from one photo to the next easily and load new photos for the map area selected. Local search from Google enables to easily select a new location and display a brand new set of photos.

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This project is an attempt to gather data from various free and open aerial imagery datasources around the world, and use them to create a single, coherent open world view.

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GeoCommons delivers visual analytics through maps: enabling non-technical professionals to view multiple databases, draw conclusions, make decisions and solve problems without traditional GIS overhead.

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We are a social platform that automatically updates a person’s gaming status in real-time, so when your friends start playing a game, you will know about it instantly. Raptr also aggregates your real-time gaming activity on the PC, Xbox Live, Mac, flash games, Steam, World of Warcraft, and many other games and platforms. It is an automated process, so once you input your details of a game or platform, Raptr will automatically keep up with your activity from that game.

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With HoudahGeo you may “pin” photos to locations where they were taken.

Just like an expensive GPS camera, HoudahGeo may store latitude, longitude and altitude information right within the image file – invisibly with no loss of quality. HoudahGeo writes EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags.

HoudahGeo also lets you to share your geotagged photos in Google Earth or publish them to Flickr.

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The Next Generation Web, also referred to as the GeoSpatial Web, will closely integrate the ‘physical world’ with the ‘online web’ based on the easy availability of the underlying ‘geographic’ data. This aspect of the Next generation web has started to impact everything from consumer devices, network infrastructure to end-user applications. Abaqus aims to provide the users with an easy-to-use MyGeoDiary service to manage their lives on this GeoSpatial web.

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360 Cities is dedicated to promoting geo-mapped, VR panorama photography and VR photographers around the world. We are a unique global network of members who are specialists in VR photography and our platform is a highly developed, feature-rich system designed to display the finest quality panoramas to an audience of casual internet browsers, photography enthusiasts, tourists, and those involved in the tourist industry.

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