The wonderful thing about so-called open APIs is often the level of detail the data contain – effectively allowing developers to create all sorts of fascinating mashups.
Here is a particularly good example – using data from photo hosting and sharing service Panoramio, Estonian developer shop Bluemoon has plotted the location on a Google Map of every single image on the site.
The result, as Bluemoon says slightly , is the globe by “level of touristiness”, a slightly awkward word but most people will know what it means.
Read full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2012/05/11/news/google-map-shows-volume-of-tourists-taking-pictures-in-every-location-around-the-world/