Where do the tourists snap photos in SLC?

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Artist Eric Fischer has created something quite cool and informative: Maps of major cities, showing where people - both locals and tourists - have taken pictures and posted them on Flickr.

Fischer's map of Salt Lake City shows the biggest concentration of tourist photos around Temple Square (naturally). Other hotspots include the State Capitol and the City Library. Locals are concentrated on those areas, as well as Main Street, the City-County Building, Memory Grove and Liberty Park.

The blue points are spots photographed by locals - people who have taken pictures in that city for more than a month (and, presumably, live there). The red points are spots photographed by tourists - defined as "people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month." The yellow points are spots photographed, but Fischer could not determine whether they were locals or not.