How does your city sound? That’s a question a group of researchers are trying to answer with a new project called Chatty Maps. The site, which features aerial views of London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Boston mines Flickr for geo-located tags that feature words that can be associated with sounds. The results were tallied to create six distinct categories: transport, nature and animals, human, music and mechanical. The result is a street-by-street break down of how each place sounds. When we put in TNW London HQ, we found it was mostly human. Busier areas like Oxford Street meanwhile were…
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