We're using the Flickr API to harvest social media for Boston Green.
I'll likely use Ruby to query the API, but other languages are okay! We just need the photo meta data.
This is an implementation of Stamen Design's excellent article on "mapping the intersection between social media and open spaces in California" -> http://content.stamen.com/mapping_the_intersection_between_social_media_and_open_spaces_in_ca