The hottest places have markers linking photos, streetview, wikipedia, wikivoyage, foursquare and google plus articles about the site. The place names are selected by the wikipedia readership numbers and foursquare checkins. Area populations are based on the geonames database.
Street level heatmaps are available for top 15000 places in the world, sorted by the number of photos in an area of a size of a few square kilometers around the place center. The popularity ranking of places in high-res area maps is computed by combining place hotness with popularity rankings from wikipedia, foursquare and real-time google places selection.
Ceate your own sightseeing maps by simply selecting, adding and editing the places you like!
Your ideas, suggestions and questions are welcome: contact tanel.tammet at gmail.com
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You can create as many maps as you wish. Each new map will initially contain either all the "standard" places visible on the map (select "standard view" from "new maps") or none (select "empty map"). You can later remove or edit all the selected places: replace their default photos, descriptions etc.
Use the "settings" link after the map to change the name, set whether the heatmap overlay is visible or not and whether the map is visible to everybody, just your friends or only you.
Click the "share" button after the map name to get the link to share your map.
Click on the place names to edit or delete them. Clicking the arrow before the place just shows the place.