Last week I uploaded my 20,000th photo to Flickr. That is a lot of photos, the equivalent of 18 photos a week over 21 years, and also a lot of effort trimming, labelling and geolocating them all. One day someone'll pull the plug on Flickr and it'll all have been wasted, but for now it's a marvellous resource as well as an amazing time capsule of places past. The 20,000th photo was of the Network SouthEast clock outside Victoria station, by the way. One thing Flickr allows me to do is look on a map to see where all my photographs are located. It doesn't allow you to do this, that facility was withdrawn years ago, but I'm allowed a map so that I can drop every fresh photo onto its correct geographical location. I wondered if there were any parts of London I hadn't photographed, so I used Flickr to cobble together a giant map of the capital and started looking for the gaps. Last time I tried this (for 15,000 photos) the largest circular gap had a diameter of three miles. I plugged all of…
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