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Maps Reveal the Difference in How Cities Are Perceived by Tourists and Locals

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Post by hprotagonist »

Angostura wrote: post #18
hprotagonist wrote: post #5

It’s always fun to quantify this. I can say that for certain I avoid the tourist things in my home city and my current adopted home city. I cannot remember the last time i was near them, actually.

But why? Tourist sights are tourist sites for a reason. The Tower of London is swarming with tourist, but its still genuinely fascinating. If only for Henry VIII's armoured codpiece.

Depends on the site.

In my native city: Times Square is to be avoided at all costs; the Met is worth going to.

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Post by mannykannot »

smogcutter wrote: post #91
mannykannot wrote: post #86

There are a couple of places here that I know as more than a visitor, and in those cases, the residents' maps are quite interesting - for example, what is it about College Point, New York, that makes it stand out?

As far as I know as an NYC native... nothing? I was wondering about that too, must be some kind of sampling artifact. Maybe there's something we don't know about, but the neighborhood has more coverage than the whole rest of Queens (besides Shea). It's probably data from one guy who lives in College Point and happens to post a ton of pictures.

Good point - maybe the amateur neighborhood historian, or possibly a group who are documenting the state of things as part of a dispute with City Hall?

+1 for calling it Shea, not Citi Field.

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Post by baud147258 »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #98
baud147258 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it really depends on which suburbs it was.

I think it was the northern outer wards? I don’t remember the number, but all the police I saw were armored and heavily armed.

The most police I've ever saw was when I working in the middle of Paris, close to the Champs-Élysées, the presidential palace and a few ministry, in 2015 (so just after a terrorist attack). They were cops everywhere.

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Post by 24gttghh »

baud147258 wrote: post #66
24gttghh wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was there a heat-map in the article for Paris that I am missing? I don't see it...

Here's the link to the one on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671584999/in/album-... The red spot on the bottom left is Palace of Versailles(specifically the cross-shaped Grand Canal in red and the surrounding gardens)

Awesome thank you!

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Post by yencabulator »

henriquemaia wrote: post #24
maaaats wrote: post #15

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My dad in his youths was a tour guide for bus trips from Sweden down into Europe. He has admitted he made up lots of trivia about the castles and stuff they passed. He is a history buff, though, knowing "everything" about every king and fight the last centuries in Europe. So I think what he told would be plausible and rooted in truth. But makes me wonder about the stories he told me as a kid, before smart phones that…

Your story reminded me of my experience with my stepdad. I grew up hearing his descriptions on every conceivable historical event, and I was amazed of how much he seemed to know about everything. At the time I felt that he was truly knowledgeable, and I couldn't even conceive of knowing even a fraction of what he knew. Then, when I grew older, I finally asked how he managed to know so much. His response? Laughingly,…

My dad's routine is to slowly make the story more and more absurd until someone questions him.
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