World’s most photographed places • Hacker News Board

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by julien_c » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 7:45 AM UTC

dclowd9901 wrote: post #15

dionidium wrote: post #12

There are probably some sites in here that really are photographed more, but a lot of it seems to be some version of this: http://xkcd.com/1138/ Edit: Oh! It's much more useful if you zoom in. Sorry for the knee-jerk.

He should make another one on the correlation of this comic being linked to in the comments of a heat-map related HN submission.

And one on this very comment.

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 9:57 AM UTC

Geograph have gamified photo density heatmaps for the UK and Ireland:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/

[i.e. You can earn points by submitting images for an empty grid square or where there haven't been any recent images]

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by prawn » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

wtvanhest wrote: post #21

te_platt wrote: post #19

I'm curious how this would look if it were somehow "divided by" population density. It wouldn't make sense for somewhere in the middle of the ocean but it might highlight more remote, scenic places. edit: For example I noticed that southern Utah is significantly brighter than you would expect from population density.

Southern Utah is Arches and Moab etc.

Also Zion, Bryce. Spectacular sights.

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by tammet » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 10:25 AM UTC

te_platt wrote: post #19

I'm curious how this would look if it were somehow "divided by" population density. It wouldn't make sense for somewhere in the middle of the ocean but it might highlight more remote, scenic places. edit: For example I noticed that southern Utah is significantly brighter than you would expect from population density.

The "all sizes" selection has a similar effect: take "small", "tiny" or "remote" to put markers on sparsely populated locations only.

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by antimagic » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 10:58 AM UTC

beggi wrote: post #13

Wonder why Europe has so many more photograph density than the US. Just correlating with higher population density?

Although weirdly there is a big dark space in France - what's with that?

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by guard-of-terra » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 11:04 AM UTC

m_mueller wrote: post #25

ClementM wrote: post #11

Interesting to see that France which is supposed to be the most visited country in the world is not the brightest area in Europe...at all. Could there be a bias in the data due to the fact that all the countries don't have the same usage rate of social medias ? Or just population density ? Or official statistics are the ones that are biaised... Anyway, great work. Loved it.

My guess: In France everything concentrates in Paris, while other popular sites are 'diluted' (there is not the spot in Provence, Normandy or Bretagne where everyone takes pictures).

I think this is true but the background color of the whole France is too dark even for that. I will assume that French don't use panoramio for some reason.

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by Chestofdraw » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 12:45 PM UTC

Zooming in on London, Piccadilly Circus (the no. 1 photo location in London according to this site) and found that the no.7 location here is 'Alex's Amazing Test Location of Greatness'

I wonder what this is and if anyone else has found similar spots anywhere else?

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by riffraff » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 12:46 PM UTC

beggi wrote: post #13

Wonder why Europe has so many more photograph density than the US. Just correlating with higher population density?

most of the pictures reflect tourism density, US has less than one fifth of the yearly tourists of europe.

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 12:48 PM UTC

antimagic wrote: post #35

beggi wrote: post #13

Wonder why Europe has so many more photograph density than the US. Just correlating with higher population density?

Although weirdly there is a big dark space in France - what's with that?

Isn't a lot of France fairly rural and with a low population density - the distribution of pictures in Europe seems to match population density fairly closely:

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-143547/Population-de...

Re: World’s most photographed places

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Post by tammet » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 12:56 PM UTC

Chestofdraw wrote: post #37

Zooming in on London, Piccadilly Circus (the no. 1 photo location in London according to this site) and found that the no.7 location here is 'Alex's Amazing Test Location of Greatness' I wonder what this is and if anyone else has found similar spots anywhere else?

The marked locations in high-res areas like cities are based on both most popular wikipedia articles and most popular foursquare locations in the intense area. Quite likely Alex's place is one of these highly popular foursquare locations.