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Does A Website Like This Exist?

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NakaNaka

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For New York City (or I guess any city, but I'm looking for New York) where you select an area of the city or a street or whatever and can see pictures of the blocks, including the stores, and then have listings for those stores including phone numbers and what they sell and for restaurants there could menus and such like that. Does a website like that exist? Thanks.

-Phil
 
It'd have to be a huge collaborative effort, don't you think ? Would have to be headed by an official group out of the city... and who'd fund that ? Not with the huge debt right now. I'd be surprised if there was one.
 
It probably would have to be collaberative but I don't think it would require city funding. It's not that complicated. First, stick to Manhattan. Second, first go for neighberhoods where there are more commercial stores then branch out. I dunno. I'm a student who is having a hard time finding internships and am throwing ideas around my head for what to do over the summer if what I'm lining up falls through.

And BTW - city just got out of debt.
 
Well you have to think of all the restaurants trusting "you" enough to go along with it... that's why I'd say it requires an "official" effort. Otherwise, you can have at it until your heart's content. Don't forget updating all that would be a b!tch too.
 
i always wanted to find something with just pics of the neighborhoods. if i saw a store, i could just go to their website if they had one. on a smaller scale, it's definitely feasible. isn't mapquest just a bunch of people driving all over the place? might as well take pictures while you're doing it.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Well you have to think of all the restaurants trusting "you" enough to go along with it... that's why I'd say it requires an "official" effort. Otherwise, you can have at it until your heart's content. Don't forget updating all that would be a b!tch too.
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Why would you need a store's approval? It's free advertising for them. All it is is a pictre of their store, and a phone number (which you can find in a phone book) the only thing would be the menus, which I don't see why any store would care, they would probably love it.

Updating would be a major hassle: very true. But I think it's something that could really fly. "A New Yorker's Guide To New York" .. It wouldn't be a tourist thing really, though I guess tourists could use it.
 
Originally posted by: rbloedow
IIRC, didn't Nvidia have a program that did this?
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Nvidia the graphics company? Why would they have that? In what capacity? (I'm confused lol) ... Any link?

-Phil
 
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
Originally posted by: rbloedow
IIRC, didn't Nvidia have a program that did this?
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Nvidia the graphics company? Why would they have that? In what capacity? (I'm confused lol) ... Any link?

-Phil
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I believe it was a thing that patched together satellite images... you put in a street address and it would zoom right over it. Kinda creepy.

http://www.jocgeek.com/html/techtalk/20030416.htm

It was called Earthviewer
 
Originally posted by: KEV1N
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
Originally posted by: rbloedow
IIRC, didn't Nvidia have a program that did this?
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Nvidia the graphics company? Why would they have that? In what capacity? (I'm confused lol) ... Any link?

-Phil
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I believe it was a thing that patched together satellite images... you put in a street address and it would zoom right over it. Kinda creepy.

http://www.jocgeek.com/html/techtalk/20030416.htm

It was called Earthviewer
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Just checked out that Keyhole thing and downloaded it. Very awesome piece of software. Completly different but still awesome./
 
Originally posted by: rh71
It'd have to be a huge collaborative effort, don't you think ? Would have to be headed by an official group out of the city... and who'd fund that ? Not with the huge debt right now. I'd be surprised if there was one.
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best sig ever
 
good luck trying to keep your camera when you go take a picture of 128th street and Martin Luther King Boulevard
 
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
It probably would have to be collaberative but I don't think it would require city funding. It's not that complicated. First, stick to Manhattan. Second, first go for neighberhoods where there are more commercial stores then branch out. I dunno. I'm a student who is having a hard time finding internships and am throwing ideas around my head for what to do over the summer if what I'm lining up falls through.

And BTW - city just got out of debt.
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LOL not that complicated? You have to get pictures of the entire area (best way is probably sattelite with the ability to zoom in on the pictures, then you have to pay someone to label all of the businesses, then pay someone to input all of the data such as menus etc, then pay for web hosting and someone to design the page/upkeep. Here is what normal people do: go to the yellow pages find the section you are looking for and find the address of a few places you think are what you want, then drive over there and see if they do indeed meet your needs.
 
Originally posted by: Mwilding
good luck trying to keep your camera when you go take a picture of 128th street and Martin Luther King Boulevard
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Hehe. Keep it to certain areas of course 🙂

What I'm proposing is not to laucnh thing thing right away with the whole city done. I would just start with a few city blocks and then expand outward. I don't know if this is realistic. I'm just throwing thoughts around.

-Phil
 
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