Planning trips with heatmaps based on photos

February 13, 2013 By 1 Comment

We’ve seen heatmaps before, cue the world’s tourism hotspots based on Panoramio photos from Estonia-based Bluemoon Interactive, and some are pretty cool (no pun intended).

Now, Sightsmap reckons it has taken them to a new level by allowing users to not only view the photos but also link out to further information via Wikipedia, Foursquare and Tripadvisor.

Street level heatmaps are available for about 15,000 of the most popular places in the world and the popularity of places is based on the pictures and information from Foursquare, Wikipedia and Google Places.

The service also enables users to create and share their own maps and trip itineraries.

Anyway, just goes to show how mash-ups are evolving.

Sightsmap was created by Tanel Tammet, a professor at Tallinn University of Technology.

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Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.

Comments

  1. Daijie Huang says:
    February 13, 2013 at 10:36 am

    A very nice initiative. The heat map consolidated with other web sources can certainly make the trip planning much more efficient.

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