Comments on: World Map Of Touristyness

By: Tanel Tammet

Tanel Tammet — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:10:23 +0000

The new sightseeing heatmap site http://www.sightsmap.com takes Ahti’s approach to a new level. This time you can zoom to high details and explore anywhere. High-res maps for superpopular areas have categorized FourSquare places attached: see what is really so popular out there.

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:01:52 +0000

Maybe it’s just because we take more photos in Europe, or share them on the Internet more

By: D Watson

D Watson — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:26:31 +0000

Hi D watson thats my name , Seems pretty popular name,, this planetry change does New Zealand survive

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:33:58 +0000

That was my thought exactly.

By: Ricardo L

Ricardo L — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:52:03 +0000

These ones would seem a bit (read “much”) more accurate:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~crandall/photomap/

The last is based on an actual paper which can be downloaded.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:52 +0000

More than anything else, it shows that the map is inhabited by American tourists who take pictures of their holidays in Europe.

By: Zractor

Zractor — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:24:13 +0000

My camp is doing a unit on pandemics/endemics/epidemics and I figured that these countries would be The first to be hit, and hit hard, carrying the disease all over the world

By: Sinjin

Sinjin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:35:54 +0000

The coding parameter isnt properly defined. There is no way the whole of the UK is more touristy than larger bigger parts of the US. Whats the cut-off point? I think you’ll find that this map is heavily skewed by multi-national immigration and native tourism, people having moved being permanent tourists as opposed to just pin-point locations. Unless its some ridiculously low rate of visit etc then there no way certain geographic areas can account for that. Conclusion- Not very scientific. Even if NZ was on the map I wouldnt go!! haha, up the Conchords : )

By: S.G.

S.G. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:02:49 +0000

Directly linking panoramio density to touristiness is flawed, as others have pointed out. An improved approach would be to only included pictures taken by non-locals, based on panoramio accounts. This would even out some of the flaws like pop. density or web access.

By: Buitenkeuken

Buitenkeuken — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:00:47 +0000

Nice to see that France, The netherlands germany and the uk are some of the biggest tourist attractions. I don’t see that much yellow and red anywhere else on the world map.