Today in news of neat technological maps: Photographer Eric Fischer is plumbing Flickr’s depths to create a Geotagger’s World Atlas. Seattle’s is shown above, with the speed of city life inferred from photos posted to Flickr. He based the color scheme on the apparent speeds of movement using the time stamps on geotagged pictures. Black represents walking (less than 7 mph), red is for bicycling (less than 19 mph), blue indicates motor vehicles on normal roads (less than 43 mph), and green is freeways or rapid transit.

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Seattle’s map is particularly neat for the boat and park traffic, the effect of the link light rail, and the differences between the east and west sides of the lake. Dive into the rest of the atlas for a look at the rest of the world.

(Flickr Blog via Rick Webb)