Does InVEST apply any kind of filter when retrieving the photo data from flickr?

[david]

I am currently retrieving my own photos from flickr to compute the impact of some variables on recreation and I would like to compare the results with those of InVEST. I read papers where flickr photos are selected using a set of tags.

I assume you just retrieve all of them but I need to be sure. Do you apply some filter to exclude photos that are not likely to be related to recreational activities or tourism?

Besides. I can only access the annual mean of photo-user-days or monthly means. It would be interesting for me to have access to the raw photo data of the server. I read the documentation of the model in github but I could not find anything useful for that purpose. Is there any may to download the raw flickr photo data for a given AOI?

Thank for your time,
Regards,
David

[dave]

Hi @david , thanks for your questions,

@david

I assume you just retrieve all of them but I need to be sure. Do you apply some filter to exclude photos that are not likely to be related to recreational activities or tourism?

No filters are applied. All public photos with a lon/lat coordinate pair are included.

@david

Is there any may to download the raw flickr photo data for a given AOI?

No we don’t provide that level of access to the data. We recommend you go straight to the Flickr API if you have a need for the raw data, and it sounds like you’re doing exactly that.