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I have to say that I'd really like to see the data on that. This looks like an unpersonalized kitchen sink attempt to cover everything. You can buy/rent/scrape

• ry0ohki 15y ago
  You can pull the most check-in places from their API if you want to see it yourself. Just looking at the Pittsburgh guide, it seems like the basic tourist tour we give visitors, and it doesn't surprise me these are also the most checked in places. They also have a few local bars that are not quite so touristy but definitely popular with the smart phone crowd. In another comment of yours you mentioned appealing to the lowest common denominator... I see what you are saying but that also means "the average" person. You are less likely to be wrong suggesting the Cheers bar then a local favorite.
  • jsavimbi 15y ago
    But I'm not the average person and my time is better spent visiting things of value, to me, in a foreign city. It doesn't make me any better of a person to visit Navy Pier, Pier 39, Pier One, Anthony's Pier Four or Piers Morgan just because a large dataset of anonymous people checked in there. And I don't need an app to tell me how great those places are. They hand these guides out at airports, hotels, free newspapers, paid newspapers and the internet. tl;dr: Gowalla wishes they got some of that Where money. I just searched for "marijuana" in Amsterdam and it returned two results. One was the Hemp Museum. You're better off asking a surly local or a fellow tourist.