Discovering tourist attractions of cities using Flickr and OpenStreetMap Data

Tourism is a growing industry which needs accurate management and planning. Photography and tourism are inseparable; Photographs play the role of tourists' footprints during their visit to a touristic city. Nowadays, the large deployment of mobile devices and digital cameras has led to a massive increase in the volume of records of where people have been and when they were there. In this paper, we introduce a new method to automatically discover the touristic attractions of every single city with the use of two open-source platforms, Flickr and OpenStreetMap. We applied techniques to convert raw metadata of geotagged photos downloaded from Flickr to information about popular Points of Interest with the help of additional information retrieved from OpenStreetMap.