Flickr geotagged photos used to map the world

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Using geotagging data from about 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr, David Crandall and other scientists at Cornell University were able to create a map of the most popular photo-snapping locations around the globe.

What David and his fellow scientists discovered was that New York City was the most photographed place in the entire world — over 12 million of the 35 million geotagged Flickr images were from NYC — and that one of the most photographed buildings is the Fifth Avenue Apple Store.

In addition, it seems like David and his team have also stumbled upon a neat way to show the least popular tourist destinations around the world.

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