Thursday, February 5, 2009

Graffiti Map

graffitiOne of my guilty pleasures online is reading graffiti-related blogs.  My main source for graffiti goodness is the Wooster Collective blog, but from there I inevitable end up down of the WWW rabbit hole reading a blog about something random like Iranian graffiti.

This bring me to my latest crackpot web service wishlist entry. I wish there was a good, highly visual Google Maps mashup for graffiti.  The features:

  • Think like TwitterVision for the Look and Feel of the service, except instead of tweets it would be recently spotted graffiti.
  • Anyone could contribute to the service via emailing or MMSing in a pic from a cellphone, or simply uploading a pic and dropping a pin on a map.
  • A “recent” view and a “popular” view, so that you could see both new stuff and amazing stuff, as desired.
  • From this, graffiti tours could emerge.  It would be like an outdoor museum, curated by the crowd. Art meets geocaching.

Notes

  1. thegongshow posted this