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Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by bongard »

jacobajit wrote: post #41

I feel like street-view data is surprisingly underused for geospatial intelligence. With current-gen multimodal LLMs, you could very easily query and plot things like "broken windows," "houses with front-yard fences," "double-parked cars," "faded lane markers," etc. that are difficult to generally derive from other sources. For any reasonably-sized area, I'd guess the largest bottleneck is actually the Maps API cost…

Yes. I work at a company that is using street view to identify high-rise apartments with dangerous cladding for the UK gov. Also could use it for grouping nearby properties which were clearly built together and share features. Helps spread known information about buildings. You can also get the models to predict age and sometimes even things like double-glazing.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by yorwba »

sksrbWgbfK wrote: post #71
baby wrote: post #63

Interesting how they censor the word "fuck" like it's going to affect your brain if you read it fully spelled or something

Is it? I can lookup that word and see it in the pictures. Or is it the StreetView version that has been censored somewhere?

The pudding.cool article has a link labeled "View the map of “F*ck”" but it leads to a search for "fuck" instead. If you search for "F*ck", you find gems such as "CONTRACTOR F CK-UP" https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/KhzY08H72wV2ldXamZU5HA?o=76... (Strategically placed pole obscuring the word.)

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by deanc »

This would be an interesting additional layer for google maps search which I often find to be lacking. For example, I was recently travelling in Gran Canaria and looking for places selling artesan coffee in the south (spoiler: only one in a hotel which took me almost half an hour to even find). Searching for things like "pourover" and "v60" is usually my go-to signal but unless the cafe mentions this in their description or its mentioned in reviews it's hard to find. I don't think they even index the text on the photos customers take (which will often include the coffee menu behind the cashier).

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by ofrzeta »

JackFr wrote: post #6
WorldPeas wrote: post #2

hah, it can find all the KEST GAK stickers now: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=kest

Can’t find me any REVS tags. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs_(graffiti_artist) Instead shows me thousands of “Rev“

You need to toogle "exact match". Then you will find a some, mostly together with COST. It's not a lot, though, probably a sign of a bygone era.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by puppymaster »

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 just hashout out the details with claude. apparently it would cost me ~8k USD to retrieve all Taipei street images from gmap api with 3m density. Expensive, but not impossible.

Re: Search all text in New York City

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Post by jdee »

fifilura wrote: post #66

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...

The first search I did was IRAK, the second, FAILE. Ghosts of graf.
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