If you plotted out all the check - ins made on Foursquare , you should be able to get a middling good handle on the geographical layout of a city . It ’s like mod Clarence Shepard Day Jr. map making or check - in cartography . So do you think you may recognize a city just by its Foursquare check - ins ?
Foursquare slapped together a map of the retiring three month of check - inch ( 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-bodied to see patterns in people ’s demeanor ( if a wad of people go to a taqueria after watch a movie , it can recommend it ) and have an ever - updating database on where the great unwashed are going .
So , let ’s play a small biz of guess the city . The one above is Istanbul . Pretty undimmed , huh ! [ Foursquare ]
Easy one : New York
Paris
SF
Tokyo
You sound like you ’re from London !
LA
square sketch the island that is Oahu .
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