Search all text in New York City • Hacker News Board

m_kos wrote: post #7

GitHub of the person who prepared the data. I am curious how much compute was needed for NY. I would love to do it for my metro but I suspect it is way beyond my budget. https://github.com/yz3440 (The commenters below are right. It is the Maps API, not compute, that I should worry about. Using the free tier, it would have taken the author years to download all tiles. I wish I had their budget!)

I would wager the compute for the OCR is cheap. Just get a beefy local desktop PC, if it runs overnight or even takes a week that's fine.

It's the Google Maps API costs that will sink your project if you can't get them waived as art:

https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/

Not sure how many panoramas there are in New York or your metro, but if it's over the free tier you're talking thousands of dollars.

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Post by throwaway984393 » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 1:50 AM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #14

I typed in "fart" and none of the results on the first page were actually the word "fart".

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Post by lildvlpr » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

I immediately looked up "Blob Dylan"

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Post by ks2048 » Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 2:02 AM UTC

m_kos wrote: post #7

GitHub of the person who prepared the data. I am curious how much compute was needed for NY. I would love to do it for my metro but I suspect it is way beyond my budget. https://github.com/yz3440 (The commenters below are right. It is the Maps API, not compute, that I should worry about. Using the free tier, it would have taken the author years to download all tiles. I wish I had their budget!)

It says 8 million images. So, 13.2 images/second for one week.

I'm wondering about more the data - did they use Google's API or work with Google to use the data?