Haha yeah, can't have nice things I guess. I'm currently working on automated moderation to catch that stuff faster. In the meantime, Report button exists if you stumble into anything awful.
Good fun thanks! Found a cute cat in Buenos Aires. It seems you have quite a lot of activity already, is that all from HN in the last two hours or from something else before this?
It's not very obvious which places are available for drawing. At first I thought it pulls Google street view, so I just zoomed in to some place I visited recently, but there was nothing.
So it turned out the spots on the map are actually the available panoramas, and not just a heatmap of the signatures.
How do you draw something? I can't seem to do anything but look, I even made an account. I went to look at the nearest locations to me with drawings but they all had nothing. I found the menu on the left side of the screen but that didn't do anything. To draw does it require becoming a paying subscriber?
You should see a toolbar at the bottom with a pen/marker icon, tap either to start drawing. No payment needed, premium is really just to support the project.
A long, long time ago ... there was a browser extension or maybe an iframe, that allowed you to "comment" on public websites. Of course you weren't really commenting on the actual website, just some form of overlay. Anyway, it quickly devolved into lawsuits and rude comments if I recall correctly.
It is my belief that a time may come when we can all ‘write’ on, or link information to, any person, place, or thing, based on a melange of semantic anchors, and in that world there will be fewer secrets and more experts.
You may be right, I may need auth down the line. I wanted to reduce friction and let people draw right away though. I think the bridges thing is an artifact of Mapillary, the API I use for panoramas. Dashcams tend to overrepresent highways. Working on better curation.
I hear you on the friction. I’m experimenting with the 'ink' limits right now, also the ink actually regenerates. I think I need to make it more obvious in the UI
I was definitely finding it fun, responsive etc. Started to do a Simpsons-esque tag in Boston but ran out of credit. Hope to see more leeway keep up the good work
About 2,000 locations so far. Mapillary has a lot of imagery but finding the 360 panoramas is trickier since they are a lot rarer. I'm actively expanding coverage
Yeah, I see that does seem confusing. The heatmap currently shows all available locations, not just ones with strokes. I need to think through the UX more like trying to balance showing coverage with making it obvious where actual drawings are. Thanks for the feedback!
I might be missing something obvious but there only appears to be the option to draw something in predefined places - where the bubbles appear on the map.
I'm trying to mark up somewhere new that doesn't have a bubble and I can't see how I'm supposed to do that.
Right now it's limited to ~2,000 curated panorama locations. You can only draw at existing bubbles on the map. I'm working on expanding coverage, but if you have a spot or location you'd love to see added, let me know :)
I like the idea of turning the map into a kind of shared canvas. The fact that the strokes wrap around the 3D geometry instead of just being a flat overlay is a really nice touch.
Curious — how do you handle moderation or prevent drawings from turning into spam once more people start using it?
Thanks! There's a report button if you hold on any drawing, plus I have admin tools to delete flagged stuff. Working on automated moderation to catch things faster as it scales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan
Since I know that, I am rather amused every time I see a dick painted anywhere.
The Hindu and Buddhist symbols are very different.
Not always:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_standard_of_Adolf_Hit...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_...
Thanks for sharing!
So it turned out the spots on the map are actually the available panoramas, and not just a heatmap of the signatures.
Cool idea overall!
I had a similar idea, funny to hear it's been done and ended so badly.
On other hand, I wonder why many pictures are in the middle of the bridges or viaducts?
How am I supposed to draw something?
I'm trying to mark up somewhere new that doesn't have a bubble and I can't see how I'm supposed to do that.
I like the idea of turning the map into a kind of shared canvas. The fact that the strokes wrap around the 3D geometry instead of just being a flat overlay is a really nice touch.
Curious — how do you handle moderation or prevent drawings from turning into spam once more people start using it?