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Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by Antrikshy »

swores wrote: post #48
daemonologist wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked article mentions that they ingested 8 million panos - even if they're scraping the dynamic viewer that's $30k just in street view API fees (the static image API would probably be at least double that due to the low per-call resolution). OCR I'd expect to be comparatively cheap, if you weren't in a hurry - a consumer GPU running PaddlePaddle server can do about 4 MP per second. If you spent a few grand on h…

Their write up (linked at top of page below main link, and in a comment) says: > " media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even need a Google account!). " Maybe they used multiple IPs / devices and didn't want to mention doing something technicall…

Any possibility this is user-submitted panoramas, and maybe they don't charge for those?

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by k1t »

vincnetas wrote: post #52
NtG_UK wrote: post #49

Finally, this guy’s OCR-friendly long game pays off! https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=BNE

what's BNE?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNE_(artist)

BNE is an anonymous graffiti artist known for stickers that read "BNE" or "BNE was here". The artist has left their mark in countries throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, Asia, Romania, Australia, Europe, and South America. "His accent and knowledge of local artists suggest he is from New York."

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by harikb »

rocauc wrote: post #46

Reminds me of NY Cerebro, semantic search across New York City's hundreds of public street cameras: https://nycerebro.vercel.app/ (e.g. search for "scaffolding")

What is surprising to me is how low res the public street camera are. Combine that with the glare of car headlights ... :(

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by fifilura »

First search for SAMO!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMO

But difficult to figure out if any of them are original.

I liked this one, but it is most likely newer. It is on top of the City-as-school building where Basquiat attended, so it is probably a tribute.

https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/DZz7Gp1PtROe78ailUpvlA?o=11...

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by rags2riches »

daemonologist wrote: post #27

This is exceedingly fun. A game: find an English word with the fewest hits. (It must have at least one hit that is not an OCR error, but such errors do still count towards your score. Only spend a couple of minutes.) My best is "scintillating" : 3.

At first glance, there's plenty of grog to be had in NYC. But sailors will be disappointed. It all seems to be OCR errors of "Groceries" or the "Google" watermarks.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by rags2riches »

rags2riches wrote: post #67
daemonologist wrote: post #27

This is exceedingly fun. A game: find an English word with the fewest hits. (It must have at least one hit that is not an OCR error, but such errors do still count towards your score. Only spend a couple of minutes.) My best is "scintillating" : 3.

At first glance, there's plenty of grog to be had in NYC. But sailors will be disappointed. It all seems to be OCR errors of "Groceries" or the "Google" watermarks.

There's even "West Indian Grog" to be found! Surely, that must be the rum based drink? https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/63DKJbMdVQY8ah6jgobU9g?o=85...
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