KrazyDad who kicked off our developer 5 questions series the other week, has a post up looking at animated visualizations of sunset and sunrise.
If you pay close attention to the differences between the two photos, particularly Florida and the Great Lakes, you’ll see that people prefer to photograph the sun sinking (or rising) behind a body of water. Hence eastern-facing coastlines tend to accumulate more sunrise photos, and western-facing coastlines tend to accumulate sunset photos. – KrazyDad » Sunrise, Sunset