New Smelly Maps Of London & Barcelona


London Smellscapes (another version alongside darker map tiles) sets out to map the prevailing types of smells on London's streets. What is most amazing is that it does this yesteryear using Flickr photos. Or rather it manages to map the prevailing smells yesteryear using smell-related words tagged on Flickr photos.

The map colors London streets yesteryear 4 dissimilar smells, 'emissions', 'nature', 'food' as well as 'animals'. If you lot explore the map you lot volition notice that nature as well as fauna related smells appear to move on predominantly inward parks. Unsurprisingly London Zoo (in Regents Park) is completely dominated yesteryear fauna smells.

Barcelona likewise has its ain Barcelona Smellscape map. In Barcelona you'll notice that the Parc de la Ciutadella is likewise total of fauna related smells. That merely mightiness last because it is dwelling to the city's zoo. La Rambla has a position out of dominant smells along its length, including fauna smells (presumably from all those caged birds), nutrient smells (lovely al fresco dining) as well as emission smells (bloody cars).

You tin larn to a greater extent than near how the 4 dissimilar odor categories were determined as well as how the map was created on the CartoDB blog.
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