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# Flickr, data and the historic built environment
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/02/flickr_data_and_the_historic_built_envir/
- Published: 2014-02-27T16:07:05.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:12:13.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: APIs, built environment, data, data journalism, flickr, listed buildings

![st-pauls-040214.jpeg](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/02/st-pauls-040214.jpeg?resize=551%2C320)

What happens if you mix the geo-data embedded in photos with some data about where our listed buildings are in London?

This:

> Higher graded buildings were more likely to have photographs taken near them: 88% of Grade Is had at least one photograph falling within 25m of their centre (as defined by the coordinates given in their list description) as opposed to 76% of Grade II\*s and 61% of Grade IIs).
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> The average number of photographs for those that had photographs within this distance was also highest for Grade Is (168 photographs on average), followed by Grade II\*s (58) and Grade IIs (42).

Some [interesting work from John Davies at Nesta](http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/heritage-space?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), using the Flickr API. Just proving what’s intuiting, perhaps, but a nice illustration of how you can use a big public dataset like Flickr to test assumptions.