These Gorgeous Maps Show The World's Great Cities From A Local's POV

Everyone knows that tourists tend to take a lot of photos—especially in cities that attract a lot of them. Any New Yorker will gripe about the selfie sticks and endless camera flashes in Times Square—but where are the places locals of the world’s most popular cities love to visit, and take photographs of their own?

Data artist Eric Fischer set out to answer that question. Using geotagging—location data embedded in photographs and other digital media—he’s created a series of maps that show us precisely which locations are beloved by tourists, by locals, and by both groups.

Utilizing the same data he drew on for the Geotagger’s World Atlas, another project that incorporates location-based phone data to visualize cities, Fischer has created a series called “Locals and Tourists.” (Fischer based his conception of who was a “local” and who a “tourist” by determining whether photographers had taken photos in the same city for a month or more.) From Beijing to Rome, these stunning data displays show just which places tourists love to photograph—and how much, or how little, they overlap with locals’ favorite haunts.



A version of this post originally appeared on HuffPost Japan.



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