While individual check-ins are not easily discernable from the data displayed in the visualization, the maps paint a picture of what type of activity the majority of Foursquare users are doing at any given time during an average day.
Indeed, many maps paint Santa Marta pastel green, implying perhaps that the hill, home to 10,000 poor people, is a park.
A sprawling map painted onto the wall of the company's headquarters illustrates with head shots and names exactly where the channel's 1,000 contributors are around the globe.
It is unlikely for a Fujianese cartographer/painter living in China to paint the map using gum Arabic rather than the usual animal glue even if he had seen foreign maps and borrowed the idea of painting a compass rose on the map.
But the five systems shown on this map paint a far different picture.
If we look at TI's corruption map, it paints the poorest countries a deep red, indicating 'high corruption risk', whereas Western states are colored in more relaxing yellow hues.
Results so far paint the electoral map Zanu-PF green, with only a few pockets of MDC red.Whatever the degree of any rigging, some believe Tsvangirai was a weak leader who let the MDC become tarnished by corruption and made careless choices in his search for a wife.
The map paints a clear picture: Inthe gubernatorial races, the Democrats can find a few bright spots in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Colorado, but losses in Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois and Maryland bear bad news.
Friends were amazed (and, yes, envious) at what she'd done: lined a stairway with several dozen framed photos, maps and artworks; painted the kitchen in black chalkboard paint; turned a closet into a dressing room.
Equally ingenious was the boundary map painted on a large sheet of plate glass or Plexiglas: a solution that not only intrigued viewers with the picture of a map drawn from behind but also got the performer's hand and arm out of the way of the map's most immediately relevant symbols.
