dataWar: borders layer

Flickr has grown into one of the premier photo hosting and sharing sites on the internet, boasting an upload rate of more than 7,000 photos per minute. Flickr releases a set of boundaries based on place type; one for each continent, country, region (state), county, locality (city), and neighbourhood. These boundaries symbolise a very subjective idea of territory. For instance, the Flickr limit of a region can match the border between continents or countries. On the contrary, there are gaps, areas with no photography. These no man’s lands have been depicted as ideal geometries above real territory.