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If you plotted out all the check-ins made on Foursquare, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on the geographic layout of a city. It’s like modern day map making or check-in cartography. So do you think you can recognise a city just by its Foursquare check-ins?
Foursquare slapped together a map of the past three month of check-ins (that’s 500,000,000 check-ins. Half a billion!) to show how Foursquare check-ins can show you the walkways of Central Park, the line of Golden Gate Bridge and more. Foursquare is able to see patterns in people’s behavior (if a lot of people go to a taqueria after watching a movie, it can recommend it) and have an ever-updating database on where people are going.
So, let’s play a little game of guess the city. The one above is Istanbul. Pretty bright, huh! [Foursquare]
Easy one: New York
Paris
SF
Tokyo
You sound like you’re from London!
LA
Foursquare sketches the island that is Oahu.
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This would have been more fun if the answers weren’t directly below the pictures.
So long as you know the shape of the city in question it’s easy.
London is the least similar to its actual shape of them all – it’s pretty much unrecognizable. I guess only hipsters from Soho, East End and Chelsea use Foursquare
You can tell it’s London by the shape of the river. Don’t tell me you’ve never seen the titles to Eastenders!
I thought Thames would be more pronounced, but I guess a lot of people like to check in to the bridges and boats