Gothamist: Panoramic New York

Scott

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:22:14 -0500

Exactement. Thanks for the link. Checking that out momentarily. Though I doubt anything that specific would fly in the privacy paranoid US. Take for instance Babs Streisand's lawsuit over the californiacoastline.org project. I finally tracked down the NYC site: http://www.dizzycity.com. There's a Wired article on them dated 24 Mar 2001. They must have gone under soon thereafter. I can't imagine that there would not be anyone interested in reviving that project. You can get an archived look by going to the following: http://web.archive.org/web/20010516221825/http://www.dizzycity.com/

amzo

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:40:16 -0500

Along those lines, France's online yellow pages has images of almost every building in Paris and the other main cities (Nice, Strasbourg, Bourdeaux). Go to: http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/ and enter a random address, for example: 8 rue Dupuytren in Paris. You'll see where David Sedaris lives. From there you can click along the attached map and see every building along the street. It gets addictive. NYC should have a project like this. NYT wrote an article on it "From Chimney Pot to Loge, a Virtual Closeup of Paris". Do a Google search and find the cached version of the article from kazys.net

Scott

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:32:55 -0500

Anybody remember the web project that took 360 degree photographs of all the street corners in NYC? You could navigate the images by map as I recall. I'd say it was alive around '97~'99... Always wondered what happened to that wonderfully useful resource.