All text in Brooklyn

https://brooklyn.alltexts.nyc/

by luu • 2 years ago

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samstave• 2 years ago

https://i.imgur.com/xvHD8fK.jpeg

This would be really useful in GeoLocation GeoGuessing games - and in order to ID a location based on any limited text you can discern. Wonder how hard it would be to apply it to other locations.

autokad• 2 years ago

there is a game that did that, played it during the pandemic, it would start as a google street view and you could move along the street.

the goal was to guess the location as quickly as possible

filoleg• 2 years ago

Geoguessr. Its popularity has only been on a steady rise to this day.

For those curious, there are different modes, including the one where you cannot move along the street at all (but you can look around by turning in that same stationary spot).

captn3m0• 2 years ago

The !!Con talk from this weekend about the project: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KqIOR-hofm4&t=23271s

MisterTea• 2 years ago

Must be bombarded with requests as it is not loading anything for both pizza and farts (dont ask...)

codethief• 2 years ago

Same here! (Not looking for farts, though :-))

misiti3780• 2 years ago

i searched "natural wine", found some new wine shops

itishappy• 2 years ago

Nobody seems to be offering "synthetic wine."

pimlottc• 2 years ago

“All text” would be a better name, I thought it was going to be about SMS messages

jufankz• 2 years ago

you commented and I listened! now it's all branded `all text in nyc` and also redirecting to `alltext.nyc`. Thanks for all the enthusiasm!

lupire• 2 years ago

    Google Maps Platform rejected your request. 
    This IP, site or mobile application is not
    authorized to use this API key. 
    Request received from IP address [REDACTED],
    with referer: https://www.alltext.nyc/

iecheruo• 2 years ago

My vote's for "Word on the street" Probably doesn't translate well to a domain name though

defrost• 2 years ago

wordseen.nyc has a few layers;

it's short, phonetic, includes "words" (plural), homonyms for "word scene", literally describes the collection of each word seen in public scenery, etc.

Arguably wordscene.nyc also.

polynomial• 2 years ago

Indeed, the domain is literally alltext.nyc, and not alltexts.nyx (as mistakenly annotated here fsr.)

divbzero• 2 years ago

It was originally alltexts.nyc but changed to alltext.nyc based on the suggestion above.

aftbit• 2 years ago

That's what I expected too, and this immediately reminded me of Wikileak's "all pages from 9/11" site.

https://911.wikileaks.org/

dang• 2 years ago

(updated above now as well. Thanks!)

mission_local• 2 years ago

They should do this in the Mission. It might be useful in mapping gang/cartel territories over time

xyst• 2 years ago

Side note: kind of cool that nyc gets their own domain. It’s unfortunate that GoDaddy is the registrar though.

elliottcarlson• 2 years ago

GoDaddy is the registry, but not the sole registrar that it can be registered through. Both NameCheap and Gandi are options - and I am sure others too.

NB: I work for GoDaddy, but am not responding in any capacity on their behalf.

corytheboyd• 2 years ago

FWIW it was one of the new gTLDs (2014) https://icannwiki.org/.nyc

epc• 2 years ago

It’s been kind of useless honestly. The city allowed the registrars to reserve many domains as “premium” domains, i.e. almost all neighborhoods were reserved with prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. Initially you had to specify a NYC postal address, no PO boxes, allegedly to prevent domains from being scooped up by non-NYC entities. And there was no privacy protection (that seems to have changed).

o10449366• 2 years ago

Crazy that you can't find any 7soulsdeep graffiti on here

idreyn• 2 years ago

was also looking for some KEST GAK stickers

zuminator• 2 years ago

Old school "COST" showed up for me as the first result for that word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cost

nilsherzig• 2 years ago

KES found some, I think the problem is that most stickers are layered

cmwright• 2 years ago

I had the same thought - got some results for "GAK" https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=gak&page=1

HaZeust• 2 years ago

Been awhile since I've been out to NYC - is KEST and RIBS still a big thing out there?

indoordin0saur3• 2 years ago

I tried searching for FREE SMELLS but I think the server is currently overwhelmed

relyks2• 2 years ago

It appears to succeed my litmus test: https://brooklyn.alltexts.nyc/?search=moshiach&page=1

For those who don't know, Chabad, an orthodox Jewish organization, has a large promotional presence in Brooklyn

standardUser• 2 years ago

Penis worked! Very impressive. I agree with the other commenter that the name "all texts" makes me think specifically of text messages.

relyks2• 2 years ago

Not as many results as I was expecting though lol

xanadu132• 2 years ago

is there a way to train this to read graffiti? it would be an awesome tool to see who has the most tags in nyc.

jnichols35• 2 years ago

The first thing I searched for was my favorite graffiti[0]. I always see it while walking the dog. It brought up a lot of false positives like 'mart' and 'part' if they were at an angle or partially obscured.

I also tried searching for Blob Dylan since there always seems to be a bunch of those around, and it only brought up 2–3 results[1].

[0]https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=fart [1]https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=blob+dylan

lqcfcjx• 2 years ago

this looks cool! just curious how you extracted all these texts?

kevinpacheco• 2 years ago

There is much that isn't indexed here. "718" yields less than 4,000 hits, which seems very low. There are many old buildings in Brooklyn that still sport "fallout shelter" signs, but ATiB returns only 13 results for that term, with many duplicate images. Here's an example of a missing result, probably one of thousands: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AdsYFzf7MAZoo4Vc8

j_bum• 2 years ago

This is such a neat site, thanks for sharing.

I wanted to use a word that I figured would be rarely seen in Brooklyn, so I tried: “Gripe”

The correct identifications center around “Vacuna de la gripe” (flu vaccine).

The remainder are all mismatches, such as “Grape” at a very sharp angle. Funnily, the majority of the mislabeled samples are all due to the “Good Grips” brand logo. This logo has a small underlined “s” at the end that looks like a “E” when you squint at the JPEG. I’ll give the OCR model a pass on this one!

rubica• 2 years ago

I tried "google" and it show's all the watermarks in Google Maps, LOL

indoordin0saur3• 2 years ago

So you're the one who broke the server?

0x112233• 2 years ago

I was a bit sad that "kest gak" yielded nothing, but then tried individual "kest" and "gak" and found the familiar tags. Fun site

itqwertz• 2 years ago

Fun app, I'm having a good time!

The OCR has a lot of false positives, though. "Truck" definitely was not what I was looking for, but it makes up a significant amount of the search. "culo" fuzzy/exact results were also surprisingly disappointing :) .

If there's a way to change the text-matching accuracy and add this filter to the front-end, I'd be lost here forever. Switching locations would also be a fun way to scale this up. Throw an Adsense add on there and you're looking at a decent passive income!

nanoservices• 2 years ago

If I search for Google it returns a massive dataset because it is also looking at the Google watermark in the street view scraped data.

pwenzel• 2 years ago

I'm amazed how many NYC addresses have "666" in them!

indoordin0saur3• 2 years ago

I swear 666 and 420 are the most common street addresses in the city

saghm2• 2 years ago

I feel like there's a bias for this, where you likely wouldn't register seeing a mundane number a bunch (like say, 378), but 666 and 420 would stick out even once, so you'll remember all the other times you've seen them. From googling though, I'm having trouble finding a name for this that I'm familiar with; the best I can find seems to be salience bias[1], but I'm not sure if that's what I was thinking of; I've certainly never heard of it before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)#Salien...

islewis• 2 years ago

I've been either stunned, or disappointed depending on the word.

"hello" gives four images of the same building with "hello" clearly written, as well as a few images of "hello" grafiti. Impressed

"table" gives six results- four of which are clearly pictures of either leaves or the sky. Two are blurry buildings, but I cant seem to find the text "table"... it could be there though? Not impressed

"car" gives Six unique results, some of which "car" is the prefix of a word. Impressed

Either way, really cool project.

tootie• 2 years ago

I searched a phrase for a pizza place near me that has a slightly stupid name for a type of pizza and alltext found it. Very impressive.

fecal_henge• 2 years ago

No results: cloaca

sethkim• 2 years ago

This is really cool, and hints at a near-future possibility of building a search engine on top of just about anything. It's clear we've moved past the ability to just search for website url's and webpage content. Anything that can be indexed - regardless of type of data or dimension (space, time, etc.) will be searchable.

saghm2• 2 years ago

I seem to be getting two of every picture for everything I search

All text in Brooklyn

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