New Map Helps You Avoid Tourists

If you've ever wanted a concrete guide to avoiding hoards of Midwesterners glued to their cameras and blocking your path, neo-cartographer Eric Fischer presents the Tourist v. Local map. In response to beliefs that his Geotaggers' World Atlas map was just a map of where out-of-towners were snapping shots, Fischer set out to see who was photographing what. The blue spots represent photos taken by "people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more," which most likely mean they're from around these parts. The red spots represent photos taken in the city for less than a month, and the yellow spots couldn't be determined.

The tourist hot spots are confirmed as Midtown, the Brooklyn Bridge, the baseball stadiums and the Statue of Liberty. But locals are snapping shots everywhere, with some concentration downtown and in western Brooklyn. There's some questionable territory encompassing the Staten Island Ferry route and the upper reaches of Central Park, but perhaps those are places we'll have to learn to share.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on June 8, 2010 5:37 PM

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Corlears Hook

Wonder what is going on up in College Point...

JMH

This is a pretty excellent use of data here. What are the lines connecting two or more dots? Because the map might be easier to read without them, if they don't serve a particularly important purpose.

lexicondevil

While the map looks pretty nice, it isn't telling us anything that we didn't already know. Wow, people taking pictures in Central Park and midtown are most likely tourists - shocking.

DaleyGrind

Wondering this as well. Very cool map though.

DaleyGrind

Because they're all Midwesterners, right?

unamo

Yeah. Tourists suck. With their bringing money to the economy. Screw you tourists and especially you midwesterners. We hate you the most because we, uh, we, uh...were told we were suppose to?

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

I love what people are doing with information. big up to Eric Fischer.

cutlass

If you need a map...

NannyState

Ding!

nice job

lol @ the difference in the intensity of red between yankee stadium and citi field. if that isn't definitive proof that most yankee fans are bandwagon jumpers from out of town, i don't know what is.