A good friend of mine in New York has put together a cool little web app called Street Art Maps. I highly recommend checking it out. The way it works is that it interfaces between Google Maps and Yahoo’s Flickr photo service to visually represent cool pieces of graffiti according to where they are all over the world.
He and I talked about collaboratively creating something similar on my site. One of the ideas we had was sort of like that UFO maps site, except it would be paranormal photography: orbs, spirits, cemeteries, haunted houses, etc. Stuff like that. If anybody else has cool ideas for Pop Occulture-related tools and widgets to build, I’d love to talk about it. There’s lots of cool stuff out there just waiting to be done.
Hats off to Mike for the Street Art Maps site.
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YES! That would be such a great idea! I’m all for it! That’s really exciting, and I’m really glad Google things are so darn customizable. It would be interesting to see if the whole haunting-photography thing eventually coincides with the theories that a lot of hauntings occur near water.
Hmm, I wonder if this would be useful for tracking conspiracy theory things too.
Yeah, like that idea somebody had about correlating UFO maps with army base maps. It seems like there are a lot of potentials here. Obviously, it would also be cool to try and correlate paranormal events with UFO’s and other things - dreams, religious visions, etc. In practical terms though, we’d probably have to break each one of these into its own thing, get the kinks worked out before combining them into master maps…
I have to wonder whether there’s a danger of police using the art maps to paint over graffiti.
Hm, I expect they’re going to paint over it anyway, aren’t they? I guess it would probably matter more on who owns the property and in what way they are using it. Police probably aren’t going to expend a lot of time and effort to stop graffiti in an area where no businesses are located or would complain about it.