A link to this interesting set of photos on Flickr titled ‘Locals and Tourists‘ has cropped up in a few places now so you may well have already taken a look; if you haven’t it’s worth a glance.

The images are maps of cities around the world that show the location of all photos currently available in public Flickr and Picasa search APIs.

• Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
• Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
• Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

1 – London

2 – New York

Looks like it’s only tourists taking photos on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis island.

3 – San Francisco

Tourists love photographing the view on golden gate bridge and Alcatraz, locals not so much.

4 – Paris

Camera toting tourists in Paris far out number local photographers. A trip out to Versailles is popular.

5 – Tokyo

Well dispersed points of interest.

6 – Chicago

Wrigley Field is a tourist spot.

7 – Washington D.C.

Tourists love the Mall and the Tidal Basin and many make the trip out to The National Zoo, National Cathedral and Arlington National Cementery.

8 – Seattle

Tourists love the Museum of Flight, Seattle Waterfront, Belltown and Seattle Center.

9 – Taipei

10 – Toronto

This article was first published by our friends at Make Travel Fair, who have agreed to its republication here. View the original article on their blog.

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