Search all text in New York City
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#2hah, it can find all the KEST GAK stickers now: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=kest
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#3This write-up about the site is also fascinating: https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/
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#4Related. Others?
All Text in NYC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367029 - Dec 2024 (4 comments)
All text in Brooklyn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344245 - Aug 2024 (50 comments)
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#5This write-up about the site is also fascinating: https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/
Added to top text. Thanks!
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#6hah, 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“
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#7GitHub 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.
(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!)
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#8I _love_ this but it's pretty bad. I searched for "Morgue" and one of the matches was the "2025 Google" watermark which it thought was "Big Morgue"
Again, a complex problem and I love it...
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#9As others have mentioned, the idea is so cool, but the text recognition is abysmal.
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#10Cool concept, but the accuracy seems quite low. The hits for "pedo" are pretty hilarious, though! https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=pedo&p=2