How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps

One way of conceptualizing physical spaces is to look at where people notice, remember, or note them. Computerassisted methods give us new tools based on implicit, rather than explicit, data about how users have examined and travelled online through cities. “Hotmap” is a tool that visualizes how people have used maps.live.com, an interactive mapping service, looking at what parts of the maps they find most compelling.