Investigating visitors preferences is important for supporting landscape planning and management of natural parks, we must understand what landscapes visitors prefer and where those landscapes generate. Thus, it is necessary to create evaluation methods, and “Visitor employed photography” has been regarded as one of the useful method. This study conducted two kinds of investigation with a view to create a more effective survey method that utilizes Visitor employed photography. The first investigation aimed at efficiency using a social network service (SNS) and smartphones as survey tools. The second approach aimed to locate the evaluated landscapes through GIS analysis within the site. For this approach, respondents carried Smartphones built in GPS units to get the geospatial information. The overall objective was to verify these procedures and create a method to understand landscapes that visitors prefer. The survey was conducted on Gwanaksan Urban Natural Park, in Seoul, South Korea. Sixty respondents were participated in on-site survey and 921 photos with geospatial information were collected. GIS analysis of these photos clarified five hot spots and its spatial characteristics and landscape that visitors prefer. In this way, this study yielded significant information for creating a method to understand landscapes that visitors prefer.
