Vacation Photos That Inform Instead of Bore

A News.com story discusses the increasing trend towards adding metadata to casually created content. Their discussion centers around vacation photos taken with increasingly sophisticated cameras, and uploaded to ever more feature-rich websites. These photos, taken on a whim by snap-happy tourists, become invaluable for people wanting to follow in their footsteps. "It's the odd juxtapositions of randomly plotted photos that may be the most surprising--and useful--to travelers with more obscure interests. For example, fans of graffiti can search the word, 'graffiti,' and 'New York City' at Flickr.com/map, and pull up photos of freshly painted tags, all plotted with pushpins on a clickable Yahoo map. A search for 'Dumbo Brooklyn graffiti,' for example, finds some 99 photos, including the infamous 'Neck Face' tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook."

Comments

Goatse!

[Anonymous Coward]

4 in a row?

Re:Neck Face

[Alien Being]

What I'd like to find is !NeckFace. Google me a place that hasn't been at least partially fucked up by NY influence. NYC is the asshole of the USA, and if terrorists had to bomb something, I'm glad it was there.

Floyd R. Turbo,

American

Re:Glorifying Vandalism

[orangepeel]

when you build a wall facing a public place, it's not completely your wall anymore. It's a public wall.

So let me get this straight: the next time you park your car on a public street, you're ok with me coming along and spray-painting it?