[x] Teleporter

[B. Bogart]

I'll comment inline...

On 14-03-05 09:32 AM, jim andrews wrote:
> But, as you point out, probably wealth is strongly correlated with
> panorama density. Mind you, I've seen some pretty destitute looking
> areas in a few of the areas. I just looked at a panorama near Lipu
> Hospital, 303 County Rd, Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China that seems
> rather gritty. And I've seen some panoramas in the streets of
> Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and northern Iraq that were pretty
> gritty. Mind you, I can't find them other than in Teleporter, ie, I
> can't find them by going there in maps.google.com. Not sure about
> that.

Indeed there is something interesting in the tension between a external
visitor capturing an image and a location in which the image is
captured. The cultural construction of the other through visual media is
an old topic. It's hard to see this outside of the context of
colonialism and appropriation.

There is also the issue of locality. Gritty and homeless and luxury and
million dollar condos may very well be in close proximity. While this
does mean that those poor/emerging locations are being represented, they
are being represented through the lens (literally) of an outsider (I
suspect in general).

There is also the urban / rural divide and the roads that connect them.
We can teleport to particular points on a path that seem to have no
significance in themselves beyond the path.

> It's not only employees of Google making and contributing panoramas.
> If you look in the bottom right of a panorma, you see the photography
> credit. Some individuals are credited in some of them.

Indeed, it seems android phones can take such panoramas, I wonder if
those posted on G+ will end up in the service you are using.

> I'll have to create a 'share' button for Teleporter.

Yes!! I think this would be really interesting... Also a sense of where
other panoramas are nearby in the map would be nice to see. I keep
wondering why this point, why not 1 mile up or down, are those images
not in the service, or is this point just the closest?

B.