The hottest places have markers linking photos, streetview, wikipedia, wikivoyage, foursquare and google plus articles about the site. The place names are selected by the wikipedia readership numbers and foursquare checkins. Area populations are based on the geonames database.
Street level heatmaps are available for top 15000 places in the world, sorted by the number of photos in an area of a size of a few square kilometers around the place center. The popularity ranking of places in high-res area maps is computed by combining place hotness with popularity rankings from wikipedia, foursquare and real-time google places selection.
It is possible to use a link ending with any place name, like this: http://www.sightsmap.com/New_York.
Zoom in, enjoy the photos, search special places, plan a trip, build and share your own map of any area.
Your ideas, suggestions and questions are welcome: contact tanel.tammet at gmail.com
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