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 past times using Flickr photos. Or rather it manages to map the prevailing smells past times using smell-related words tagged on Flickr photos.

The map colors London streets past times 4 unlike smells, 'emissions', 'nature', 'food' together with 'animals'. If you lot explore the map you lot volition abide by that nature together with brute related smells look to grade predominantly inwards parks. Unsurprisingly London Zoo (in Regents Park) is completely dominated past times brute smells.

Barcelona too has its ain Barcelona Smellscape map. In Barcelona you'll abide by that the Parc de la Ciutadella is too total of brute related smells. That simply mightiness endure because it is abode to the city's zoo. La Rambla has a release of dominant smells along its length, including brute smells (presumably from all those caged birds), nutrient smells (lovely al fresco dining) together with emission smells (bloody cars).

You tin forcefulness out larn to a greater extent than nearly how the 4 unlike olfactory belongings categories were determined together with how the map was created on the CartoDB blog.