Where can you find Tampa Bay's hipsters? What about its tourists?

Now, an online map lets you answer those questions anonymously, by painting them in.

Hoodmaps.com, a crowd-sourced web site that launched in July, color-codes geographic areas by what type of people — "hipsters," "rich (people)," "tourists," "suits," "uni" (students) or "normies" (everyone else), you can find there.

Anonymous, crowd-sourced city maps like Hoodmaps have in the past created problems with stereotyping. In 2013, a site called Ghetto Tracker, which allowed users to mark neighborhoods as "safe" or "ghetto" inspired a wave of criticism and later shut down.

The neighborhood-focused social network Nextdoor was moved to begin implementing anti-racial profiling features to improve its reputation.

On Hoodmaps.com, there are no set categories for areas based on crime, poverty or residents' races. But users can also submit their own tags, which can be voted up or down by other users.

Near Los Angeles, for example, users labeled various neighborhoods "ghetto," "no go zone" and "freeway signs have bullet holes here." Many cities have tags noting immigrant populations.

In the Tampa Bay area, there have been many fewer users than the thousands in Los Angeles and New York. Still, certain patterns have emerged already. Users painted South Tampa green for rich residents and dotted beach communities from Clearwater to St. Pete Beach with red for tourists. Dark blue, denoting college students, surrounds the University of South Florida campus.

Elsewhere in Florida, users painted I-4 west of Orlando in red around the Disney and Universal resorts, and Palm Beach and Boca Raton rich green.

Creator Pieter Levels wrote on Reddit that he wanted to keep the categories "positive," but that the map is to help people determine both where to go and where not to.

"I always have trouble getting an overview of how a city is made up and which areas to go (to) and which to avoid," creator Pieter Levels wrote on Reddit.

Martin Ecehnique of Citylab wrote that the categories are limited and "white-centric", but that it's still interesting to see what people think about your neighborhood, however biased they might be.

Contact Langston Taylor at ltaylor@tampabay.com. Follow @langstonitaylor.

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