alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Search London StreetView panoramas by text
Inspired by All Text in NYC (https://alltext.nyc) by Yufeng Zhang I thought I would replicate something similar for London.
A searchable tool that lets you explore text captured across Google Street View imagery in London; shop signs, posters, graffiti, van numbers etc
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For [batman] it only finds this one poster,
https://maps.app.goo.gl/jmJ1qhQsB3AetLiK8
But doesn't find this billboard, probably because it doesn't actually contain the text "Batman".
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nBoHArvaKZSgRH5W7
It should be able to match text query to anything, not just text.
What do you think it would take to do a global version? How much hard drive space does just London take up?
When I search "Colliers Wood", with or without quotation marks, each results match only one of the words.
After inputting a text from my phone, I just get a:
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Related:
Search all text in New York City - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883304 - Aug 2025 (116 comments)
All text in Brooklyn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344245 - Aug 2024 (50 comments)
How do you get the data from google street view? Do they throttle scrapers?