By Jessica Davies

Google has acquired social travel app startup JetPac, which specialises in analysing public Instagram photos to provide unique contextual information to create mobile city guides.

The app began as a social travel guide on the iPad, but later developed its use of Instagram data to create a visual city guide of more than 6,000 cities worldwide.

Using the free app people can find things such as the bars where women go, the best views or where the hipsters are.

It also claims it can “spot lipstick, blue sky views, hipster mustaches and more” all through advanced image processing on billions of photos.

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Source: The Drum