Let’s find random things on the street with full-text search!
summary
A searchable index called “all texts in Brooklyn” turns Google Street View into a full‑text DB and actually returns street signs and stickers: 300,000 Street View images sampled every ~5m produce 16 overlapping photos each, fed to the Mac built‑in OCR to yield 7 million OCR results, cleaned with geopandas‑based clustering and de‑duplication in progress; searchable site brooklyn.textual.city surfaces 75,000 one‑way signs, ~3,500 “love” instances and 51 “best pizza” hits and includes visualizations and printed installations.
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