Rome ranks as the most photographed city in Europe.
(Credit: fotocommunity/Dominik Parr)
Panoramio is a Google-owned photo-sharing site powered by Google Earth and Google Maps, sort of like a crowdsourced and much more beautiful take on Google Street View for places you actually want to see. Estonian software engineer Tanel Tammet took Panoramio data to create his own Google Maps layer called Sightsmap — a heat map showing the most photographed places in the world. The most-photographed cities and places are also ranked worldwide and by visible sections of the map.
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So it’s possible to see what the most photographed place in your city or state is by simply zooming in on it. For example, here in Taos, N.M., it’s the historic Taos Inn, a popular hotel, bar, restaurant, and music venue right in the center o… [Read more]
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