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Loud Whispers

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Phone heatmap and antarctic travelers
« on: January 29, 2018, 10:47:15 am »
So some boffins made a heatmap showing the travels of people using smartphones with GPS trackers
Shows some cool stuff, some funny stuff and informative stuff. The blankness in Syria and North Korea for example, is unsurprising. Travels more or less fit geographical barriers and maritime lines of transit. There are places in the far Northern hemisphere that are barely connected to the world. Also military bases can be found where they'd be censored on google maps for example

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If you can't make it out clearly, this is Area 51 and a single person forgot to leave their phone at the checkpoint. Somebody's gonna get in trouble for exposing the ayyy lmaos. This thread is basically to see if we can find and document more hidden gems about human travel data
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Re: Phone heatmap and antarctic travelers
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2018, 11:14:59 am »
This map has some quality FeelsAfricaMan material on it.
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Re: Phone heatmap and antarctic travelers
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2018, 08:59:55 pm »
Mysterious letter C in Antarctica. Magma crabs confirmed.
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Re: Phone heatmap and antarctic travelers
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2018, 09:02:29 pm »
Hey, extreme cold environments do tend to see life accumulation around thermal vents, iirc, so... it's not as unlikely as you might think?
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