Rutgers Social Media Information Lab has created The Beat , a site that combines Instagram's geotags with Google Street View to help people "explore topics in a new way." It works really well, giving context to the images — instead of just looking at pretty sunrises, you can actually explore the area that they were taken. There are other projects that group together images by location, notably This Is Now , but the addition of Street View and a more focused presentation makes The Beat a little different — it's well worth exploring for yourself, and the #wedding and #sunrise 'Beats' are fairly safe places to start.
There's no filtering that we can see, so you're at the mercy of the Instagram community for content. There's a Beat for...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/29/3705722/rutgers-instagram-street-view-mashup-the-beat-geotagging
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