Europe at night from space?

Is this a real photograph of Europe at night from space?

Image credit: Eric Fischer

That is actually a data visualization. Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both. Image by Eric Fischer, 2011.

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