Weather & Summer Spatial Behavior of U.S. National Park Visitors (Flickr data 2006 - 2018)

This dataset corresponds to a paper titled "Social media data reveal ecoregional variation in how weather influences visitor behavior in U.S. National Parks," which is currently under review. The paper is authored by Emily J. Wilkins, Peter D. Howe, and Jordan W. Smith.  In this paper, we investigate how daily temperature and precipitation in the summer influence visitors' spatial behavior in 110 U.S. National Park Service Units. We use Flickr data from 2006 - 2018 to uncover visitors locations within parks, and connect each geotagged point to the weather at the date the photo was taken (using Daymet data), as well as nearby infrastructure and environmental features (using OpenStreetMap data). 
While we cannot provide the raw Flickr data due to privacy concerns, we include the final database we used after all data collection, cleaning, and processing (all_ecoregions_Flickr.csv). All personally identifiable information is deleted from this database. This database was used to run the statistical tests presented in the paper, as well as generate the maps (R code included).  Also includes maps of each of the 110 study sites that show the general summer spatial distributions of Flickr posts in each park, and well as how the spatial distributions differ by hot and cold summer days.