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6 Unusual City Maps, Locals vs Tourists

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Instead of going to someone else's blog post, here's the original link, by the artist Eric Fischer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863...

It includes a description of his methodology.

Eric Fisher is fully credited at the bottom of the post, with links to him and the photostream this is taken from.

Woah, that information should definitely be in the introduction, as is customary for blog authors who are presenting the work of others. I didn't know it isn't your work until I read this comment.

Updated the post, Eric Fisher is now credited both before and after the photos.

Thanks for the publicity!

You are most welcome. The maps totally deserve the attention.

Still looks 100% like an attempt to drive traffic to your company blog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863... would have been the best submission URL.

In case you don't read to the end, more cities can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671594023/in/photost...

Other American cities that I looked at include DC and Boston.

Notes on Philadelphia: Most photos on the regional rail lines are by locals, even on the northeast corridor. Tourists in Fairmount park are not making it much further than the zoo and art museum, which is unfortunate because there are lots of great areas north of that. I would have expected more activity in both rivers due to the tours and rowing that take place. Penn/Drexel campuses are photographed much more than the Temple campus.

http://flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671522359/sizes/o/in/pho...

It seems that locals at Berlin are not keen on taking photos of their own city.

What's that area center-right in SF that apparently no tourist likes to go?

Downtown Oakland

San Francisco is the best one. The bright red of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge combined with the deep blue of everything south of Market.

Sydney has me confused. Who are all these locals taking photos of a few major roads south of the city. Is that big thick one Botany Road? It's not really worth photographing.

Tourists take pictures of public works. People take pictures of their houses.

Ah, but this is nothing like a population density map of Sydney. Sydney is huge, it stretches way off in the north and west directions. What you're looking at here is basically the areas immediately south of central Sydney -- probably only 10% of the population lives in that area (though admittedly the 10% demographically most likely to use flickr).

Besides, those major roads don't have that many people living on 'em.

People also take a lot of pictures of local businesses, although looking at Street View for that street that also seems a little unlikely. Maybe it is one of those people with a bicycle helmet camera taking pictures of their commute every day? I'll have to take a look at the pictures and check.

Could be where a lot of nightclubs are. People love taking tedious photos in nightclubs. And there's always a clubbing district where the tourists don't go.

It would be nice if one could overimpose those graphs to a google map.

Does anyone know what the blue/red/yellow lines represent?

It is in the post, but blue = locals, red = tourists and yellow = unknown.

Data is gathered from flickr profiles of photographs taken in those spots.

And the lines connect places where the same person took multiple pictures reasonably close together in time and distance.

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