It is necessary for us to have a image cropping strategy for the user generated images that we pull from Foursquare, since we cannot control their aspect ratio or quality. All images that don’t fit perfectly into the application will be centered and have either left/right or top/bottom cropped.

The grey rectangle represents the area within the application where we want to show images. Everything outside this box will be cropped. We believe this is the best strategy since most amateur photographers center their subject.