In an academic survey made on more than 33 million photographs posted on the famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com disclosed that the flagship Apple Store situated in midtown Manhattan is the 28th most photographed site on our earth.
This research also showed that popularity of Fifth Avenue Apple Store (opened: May 2006) is far more than many other hot places for tourists including St Paul’s Cathedral ( London), the Reichstag ( Berlin) and the Washington Monument( US capital).
The most worth-seeing feature of this store is a huge glass cube facade with a suspending Apple logo inside. It has also been recorded as the 5th most photographed landmark in New York after some other famous places like the Empire State Building, Times Square and Grand Central Station.
This analysis report was published in a paper showed at the WWW 2009 conference organized in Madrid a week ago. The work was done by a group of academics working at Cornell University who told that they analyzed 33,393,835 images uploaded on Flickr.com by 307,448 users from all over the world.
With the help of the geo tagged data which users are asked to attach with their images, the research team tried to know what the world’s famous landmarks were as taken by the collective thinking of Flickr members across the globe.
Here are some more findings by this group:
- New York City is told as the most photographed city in the world. Amazing fact is that more than 12 million of the photographs have been taken there.
- They also listed top seven most photographed landmarks. This includes Eiffel Tower, Trafalgar Square, the Tate Modern Gallery, Big Ben, Notre Dame, the London Eye, and the Empire State Building.
- Top 10 cities which are recorded to be the most photographed around the world are New York, London, San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Seattle, Rome and Amsterdam.
David Crandall was leading the group of researchers. He also served Kodak as a computer engineer and now working as a post-doctoral associate at Cornell’s Department of Computer Science.
In an email Crandall said that “The Apple Store landmark is very interesting and surprising result of our research. However, we should also keep in mind that the data available on Flickr.com is a heavily biased representation of the world”
He said that as Flickr is more popular in North America and Western Europe than other world, therefore landmarks present in other regions of the world were probably to be under-represented.”
Crandall further said it is also an assumption that people using Flickr were also more interested in technological products – that could also be a reason for being more interested in the Apple Store as compared to an average person.
Flickr is owned by Yahoo and it is the No. 1 photo-sharing site.
Crandall told that the research revealed that the top 5 photographed Australian cities were Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth/Fremantle, and Canberra. However their world listing is 34th, 78th, 201st, 223rd and 327th simultaneously.
In the end here are the top landmarks in Australia:
The Sydney Opera House
The Harbour Bridge
Circular Quay
The Yarra River
Sydney’s Centre Point Tower
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