The data is from Google Maps API. That is also the tool used. All images are the same zoom level.

% = (colored area)/(total area - black area)

I feel like the real message here is how data poor the PoI API is.

So odd the cities I've been to were nothing like I was expecting... What does "point of interest" mean just high traffic?

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what does point of interest mean in this context?

Are you sure you are measuring what you think you are measuring?

I'm pretty sure I can find more points of interest in Cairo than in Canberra. I spent a couple of days in Cairo but that only scratched the surface.

The Singapore map has a lot of Malaysia and Indonesia in it.

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You could spend a month in Canberra and not find one point of interest

Correction: the one you showed for Manila is actually not the capital city but the whole Metro Manila; they are different from each other

But it's also kinda right since Metro Manila is the National Capital Region

What is this supposed to show?

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Did 'Berlin' label a forest as PoI?

That's some bullshit, man. Paris and Rome are like 99% points of interest. Damascus (pre-war, anyway) was like 100%. The sources for this are dumb.

Lost me at Canberra. World’s most boring city, yet somehow highly ranked here.

I think it’s because the “points of interest” are actually “points of boredom”. Canberra is a planned capital full of things designed to be “interesting” but that mostly fail.

Is the Eiffel Tower a point of interest? It sure is a point of interest, but it wouldn't add much to the total area that is considered a point of interest. Compare that to a city that has a large square in the center. The square is way less point-of-interesty than the Eiffel Tower, but it would add quite a big area.

For Moscow it must just mean: "Shitshow"

It’s a percentage of the area of the city which is considered (by federal authorities I guess) as a sightseeing or as a cultural attraction

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