Flickr's New York: A tale of two cities

Tourists photograph Midtown and Lower Manhattan, while locals click their cameras in the East Village and Chinatown. So, it's clear: tourists and locals don't mix in New York.

Eric Fischer, a computer program, used geotagging data from Flickr and Picasa to plot maps of New York and 71 other cities, using a system he created for determining which shutterbugs are locals and which are from out of town.

Using this system, we can divine the following:

• Tourists shoot Yankee games, while there are more locals snapping away when the Mets are playing at home
• Locals prefer the Manhattan Bridge, and tourists flock to the Brooklyn Bridge ... yet Brooklyn itself is packed with local photogs
• Nobody goes to the Upper West Side (unless he or she lives there)
• Governors Island is about as tourist-free a place as you'll find in New York

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