This link sent me to Flickr, where I already store and host all of my photos. Flickr is an incredible resource for sharing your photos and discovering new photographers. One individual, Eric Fischer, has created a really interesting project. He has essentially tracked who (tourists, locals, either) is taking photos and where. There are dozens of city maps available. Maybe this is really nerdy and I'm only so interested because it's the combination of my two loves, but I think it's crazy cool.
His explanation:
Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.
Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.
If this interests you at all, head over to his set Locals and Tourists on Flickr.
Some samples... see if you can figure out which cities are shown before you scroll down to my caption!
Las Vegas! Amazing how easily you can see the Strip.
Venice. Notice the "S" shaped Grand Canal? And the general lack of local photos?
Berlin. Anyone who has been there can pinpoint the intense red areas.
And finally, my own Ottawa. Not a ton of tourist photo taking going on here!
Go check it out! It's really neat.
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