google street art view

created by red bull energy drink manufacturers and brazilian ad agency loducca, 
'google street art view' aims to document the existence of works of street art as captured by google street view
in the form of a searchable, multimedia map that users help to create.


the crowd-sourced website lacks the image clarity and clean functionality of the recently released 'google art project'
(previously covered in the designboom article 'google art project'), but the interactive 'street art view' map
nonetheless provides a broad and instantly updatable record of street art pieces captured by google street view.
a small information box to the screen's upper right includes the title, artist, and exact location of the work,
when known by the user who has added that location.

with twitter and facebook sharing built-in, the map is also integrated to provide flickr thumbnails of geotagged photographs,
particularly helpful for an art form that is often ephemeral as works are taken down or painted over.

http://www.streetartview.com/