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Geo-tagged photo map of Big D

Great to see Brian and Matt in Dallas for one of their (amazing series of around the nation) road races.

Their hotel was near the Texas Book Repository and the Grassy Knoll, so Brian and I walked to the site at night.

This map from D magazine was really interesting to me. It annotates (cool, but a bit creepy) the sites of photos in Dallas taken by tourists vs locals. A really interesting graphic, I think. Sort of reminds me of honey bee traffic to different pollinating plants - only with people.

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While downtown Dallas has some interesting history, there are some other sites (sights?) well worth seeing here that don't come up nearly as often on this map of visitors' paths. I wonder the traffic patterns of (visiting vs local) people in the other areas that we each live. Or ours, considering what we see each day, vs what we might choose to see.


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Here's a link, from Smithsonian, to the science and motivations of this project (not merely involving Dallas), by Eric Fischer.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/03/cities-as-seen-by-locals-or-tourists/

This reminds me of a great website

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

I'm guessing you'll like it -- check it out, click through a few pages. I love it

Was awesome seeing everyone!

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