{"id":12441,"date":"2007-07-28T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/07\/tracking-graffiti-with-help-from-flash-google.html"},"modified":"2007-07-28T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T09:37:15","slug":"tracking_graffiti_with_help_from_flash_goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/tracking_graffiti_with_help_from_flash_goo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking graffiti with help from Flash, Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/grafarc\/flash\/view.htm\">Graffiti Archaelogy project<\/a> uses a Flash interface to let visitors navigate to different heavily tagged spots (links at left), then see the work at various stages (links at bottom).&#160; Using the M &amp; N keys to cruise back and forth in time, I&#8217;m reminded of watching time lapses of plant life exploding on a surface, dying, and being reborn.&#160; Yesterday Adobe hosted a visit from project founder Cassidy Curtis, but I had to bail in order to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjosegrandprix.com\/\">guys driving by the building at 180mph<\/a>.&#160; Fortunately Archaeology.org has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/0707\/etc\/graffiti.html\">the whole backstory<\/a> on the crew &amp; project. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saccade.com\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere you can find a Google-powered map that tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=104952181539126761935.0000011207ff5637482f2\">Seattle-area graffiti tagging<\/a>.&#160; The NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/27\/technology\/27maps.html?ei=5087%0A&amp;em=&amp;en=4d9f07682d1c2bb6&amp;ex=1185768000&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1185638821-CxIqi4wRV5ckJcmeCuXaBw\">talks about the way<\/a> that mapping services are enabling people to plot all kinds of info, from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=111055596445748299073.00000112b3fbf3f4913a1\">hydrofoils around the world<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=100182573864503826878.00000112c83accb61cf6e\">yarn stores in Illinois<\/a>.&#160; (No progress yet in getting yarn graffiti pioneers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittaplease.com\/About\/index.html\">Knitta Please<\/a> to my hometown, I see.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graffiti Archaelogy project uses a Flash interface to let visitors navigate to different heavily tagged spots (links at left), then see the work at various stages (links at bottom).&#160; Using the M &amp; N keys to cruise back and forth in time, I&#8217;m reminded of watching time lapses of plant life exploding on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}