Vacationer Minesweeper is a twist on the traditional puzzle sport, utilizing a gridded map of actual places to spotlight the unfold of Airbnb in well-liked Spanish vacationer locations. For those who’ve ever performed Minesweeper (and who hasn’t?), you’ll acknowledge the principles – however right here, as an alternative of dodging bombs, you’re “sweeping” for zones of vacationer strain.
Presently you may play Vacationer Minesweeper on gridded maps of Mallorca and Barcelona (extra places are on the way in which). It’s price noting that the visualization guidelines are just a little totally different in every location:
- In Mallorca, a cell has a mine if it incorporates greater than 15 Airbnb listings, turning clusters of trip leases into hotspots on the map.
- The Barcelona map, then again, makes use of value as its metric: any grid cell with a mean nightly charge above €200 is handled as a mine.
This shift between amount in Mallorca and affordability in Barcelona highlights totally different aspects of the tourism drawback – the sheer density of leases in a single case, and the financial strain of excessive costs within the different.
The grid cells in every metropolis are additionally primarily based on totally different sized areas. I consider that in Barcelona every grid cell represents a 500 m sq., whereas in Mallorca every grid cell is a 2 km² space.
By way of: Quantum of Sollazzo
