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Sightmap: A heat map of our planet, by photographs taken.

I also considered the title "OMG IS EUROPE ON FIRE?!?" but it was probably too cheesy. And the reason Europe might appear to be too lit up must have something to do with Panoramio's popularity over there.  Also, more photos have been taken in Antarctica than in Somalia.

 

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 The heatmaps are based solely on the number of available Panoramio photos for an area: both the number of photos and the number of authors is taken into account. 
 
 The dark and the blue areas have a few photos, the red areas have more and the yellow areas have a large number of photos geotagged. 
 
 The selection of FourSquare places for the high-res maps is based on the category and the number of different users ever checked into the place. If you do not see a place that should be there, consider adding it to foursquare and inviting people to check in! 
 
 The inspiration for heatmaps came both from the personalized tourism recommender project Sightsplanner and the world touristiness map by Ahti.