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The top 25 cities are all in North America and Europe, which Mr. However, he added that the number of visitors to such places as Nathan Phillips Square, the Eaton Centre and Dundas Square are difficult to record.įollowing the city's tallest building on the list were Nathan Phillips Square, Dundas Square, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Eaton Centre, Union Station and the Hockey Hall of Fame.ĭavid Crandall, a post-doctorate research associate at Cornell who worked on the study, said that while the results may be fairly accurate, "we're certainly not claiming that this is a definitive list of landmarks or a definitive ranking." Using the coordinates, researchers then determined which landmark was being photographed by matching text tags and landmarks within a 100-metre radius.įlickr was used because, according to spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek of Yahoo Inc., which owns the photo-sharing site, it has the most geotagged photos available online with 130 million images.Ī selection of CN Tower photos from Flickr.Īndrew Weir, vice-president of communications for Tourism Toronto, said the "exclamation point" of the skyline at the top of the list is consistent with the most-visited sites in the city. Surprise, surprise - the CN Tower is the most photographed landmark in Toronto, according to a Cornell University study that looked at the world's most popular photo-taking locations.įor Mapping the World's Photos, researchers at Cornell created an algorithm to sort through 35 million pictures that were uploaded to the photo-sharing website Flickr and determined their location using the coordinates that were either recorded by the camera's GPS or selected by the user when posting them online. This includes antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment.CN Tower most photographed site in city: study

Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element. Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest continually occupied floor within the building. This measurement is the most widely used and is used to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat rankings of the Tallest Buildings in the World. This includes spires but does not include antennae, signage, flagpoles or other functional-technical equipment.

Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building. Burj Khalifa wins by far in all three categories. The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has established 3 criteria to determine what makes a tall building tall. Not only is Burj Khalifa the world's tallest building but it has also broken two other impressive records: tallest structure, previously held by the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota, and tallest free-standing structure, previously held by Toronto's CN Tower.