This calendar week Eric Fischer's Locals as well as Tourists map has correctly been getting a lot of dear over again on social media. The map analyses Twitter information to highlight areas of cities pop alongside locals as well as the places where tourists visit.
His urban substance maps demo the locations of Tweets sent past times locals (those who postal service inwards 1 urban substance for 1 consecutive calendar month or more) as well as tourists (whose tweets are commonly posted inwards around other city). The maps supply a fascinating insight into locations that are pop alongside tourists as well as into areas which are pop alongside locals but become largely unseen past times tourists.
One matter missing from the maps is an actual street map. The trial is that unless you lot are a local yourself you lot in all likelihood won't endure able to position the locations which demo upward every bit clusters (for locals or tourists) on the map.
Greg to Differ has tried to overcome this omission inwards Eric's maps past times overlaying the Twitter information for Bangkok on a serial of static Google Maps. In Tourists vs Locals: Mapping Where People Tweet inwards Bangkok Greg examines unlike Bangkok neighborhoods, using his local noesis to seek out the information inwards each map as well as explicate the local locations that look pop alongside locals as well as the locations favored past times tourists.
Each static neighborhood map includes a transparency command which allows you lot to adapt the opacity of the Twitter overlay as well as compare it alongside the route map underneath,
