[mvexel]

If you need a travel guide for this type of tourism, you may find the “tourists vs locals” maps interesting and useful. Made by analyzing Flickr photos grouping them in ones likely taken by locals (blue) vs ones likely taken by tourists (red).

[ghaff]

Those were fascinating when geotagging was just becoming a thing. All they show though is that a lot of tourist locations aren't where people live and work. (If you look at the SF example, relatively few locals are regularly taking pics on Alcatraz.)

It's not that visitors should avoid locales like the Mission (personally a lot of it is probably more interesting than Fisherman's Wharf) but it's not surprising that overall areas with a lot of housing or downtown businesses don't necessarily overlap with tourist attractions (though they probably do in SF more than some other places. Seattle may be a more obvious example although there are many that make a lot of sense.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/albums/7215762420915...