GPS Data Illuminates Tourists from Space

It's usually appealing simple to abstain touristy swamps in New York—just contrivance Times Square. But what if you wish to be added absolute than that? Eric Fischer's ablaze "Locals and Tourists" maps appearance a city's disconnected hangouts.

Using photo geotags, Eric afar dejected "people who accept taken pictures in this city-limits anachronous over a ambit of a ages or more" (locals) and red "people who assume to be a bounded of a altered city-limits and who took pictures in this city-limits for beneath than a month" (tourists). The after-effects are both admirable and insightful. While some locations of the city-limits are a agitate of assembly and outsiders, there are advanced stretches that are photo-segregated. Fisher's plan spans cities far above New York—from Budapest to Hong Kong. Turning cities into abstract, GPS-correlated red and dejected calefaction maps doesn't accomplish them impersonal—it opens up the bodies down below. [Eric Fischer via Alex Rainert]