{"id":1444,"date":"2017-06-15T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/15\/these-maps-do-more-than-just-give-directions\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:27:00","slug":"these-maps-do-more-than-just-give-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/15\/these-maps-do-more-than-just-give-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"These Maps Do More Than Just Give Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally, city maps are used for navigating streets and subways but do little to inform about the experiences of a city. That\u2019s where <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagsandthecity.net\/berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tags and the City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> comes in. Created by Tin Fischer, David Goldwich, Jug Cerovi\u0107, and Andrea Rohner, a journalist, software engineer, architect and map maker, and graphic designer respectively, the transit maps are labeled based on popular Instagram hashtags used near each station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-145876 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/visualnews-wp-media-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04162309\/tagsandthecity-london-3840.png\" alt=\"london maps\" width=\"3840\" height=\"3840\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hashtags analyzed by Fischer were chosen based on their proximity to a station and did not include tags that referenced temporary events or installations, neighborhood names, or station names. The purpose of the analysis was to determine what people were frequently photographing and sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking at each map gives users a pretty decent idea of trending events and experiences around each city. For New York, there are plenty of food trends marked throughout the city like the #Cronut in SoHo and #RedRooster in Harlem, while Paris was considerably more defined by cultural landmarks rather than food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145877\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/visualnews-wp-media-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04162320\/tagsandthecity-new-york.png\" alt=\"new york maps\" width=\"3840\" height=\"3840\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Fischer, the hashtags that he found most interesting weren\u2019t ones labeling food or cultural landmarks but something completely different altogether. \u201cWhat always surprises me is how popular it is to go and see filming locations from movies, like the fire station from #Ghostbusters in New York or the high rail from #Inception in Paris,\u201d he says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, since Instagram changed its open data policy, the data only covers images from 2014 and can no longer be updated but they do intend to make. For now, you can check out the maps they\u2019ve already created for Berlin, London, New York, Paris, and San Francisco Bar Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a look around each of the cities <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagsandthecity.net\/berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145878\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/visualnews-wp-media-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/04162332\/tagsandthecity-san-francisco-bay-area.png\" alt=\"san francisco maps\" width=\"3840\" height=\"3840\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Via: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3067395\/infographic-of-the-day\/mapping-the-collective-experience-of-a-city\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Co.Design<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: Visual News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, city maps are used for navigating streets and subways but do little to inform about the experiences of a city&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/06\/tagsandthecity-london-3840.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}