World Touristiness Heatmap Helps You Avoid Tourist Traps
Need a friendly escape, or do you just want to go lone wolf? The World Touristiness Map helps you pick an offbeat, remote locale or a foreign-friendly destination for your next vacation with a heatmap detailing the relative tourist-iness of a location.
Based on location-based photo sharing service Panoramio, the World Touristiness Map is a compilation of the most frequently visited places in the world. (Which may not be a perfect measure, but should offer some good insight.) The map is color-coded by its level of touristiness: the color yellow indicates a high level of tourism, red indicates moderate levels, and blue indicates low levels. Grey means that there are no Panoramio photos in that area at all.
Want to hang out with European tourists in Vatican City this summer? Based on the map, European countries receives the most tourists. Certain parts of North America, Asia, and South America are the next most touristy, with most popular spots being along coastlines.
Via @lifehacker
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