Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings
Hey HN, I made a site where you can draw on street-level panoramas. Your drawings persist and other people can see them in real time. Strokes get projected onto the 3D panorama so they wrap around buildings and follow the geometry, not just a flat overlay. Uses WebGL2 for rendering, Mapillary for the street imagery. The idea is for it to become a global canvas, anyone can leave a mark anywhere and others stumble onto it.
Discussion Highlights (15 comments)
sans_souse
I love it until fine I'll signup and love it again but then no you pay now. My 2 cents is all I have to give.
yukapero
good work! this is like Wplace but in 3D
FailMore
Good fun thanks! Found a cute cat in Buenos Aires. It seems you have quite a lot of activity already, is that all from HN in the last two hours or from something else before this?
colejhudson
How are the panoramas chosen? That is, can I select one that isn't currently on the map?
tkocmathla
Cool idea, but of course the very first image I clicked into was a dick.
abrookewood
A long, long time ago ... there was a browser extension or maybe an iframe, that allowed you to "comment" on public websites. Of course you weren't really commenting on the actual website, just some form of overlay. Anyway, it quickly devolved into lawsuits and rude comments if I recall correctly.
doctorhandshake
It is my belief that a time may come when we can all ‘write’ on, or link information to, any person, place, or thing, based on a melange of semantic anchors, and in that world there will be fewer secrets and more experts.
qezz
It's not very obvious which places are available for drawing. At first I thought it pulls Google street view, so I just zoomed in to some place I visited recently, but there was nothing. So it turned out the spots on the map are actually the available panoramas, and not just a heatmap of the signatures. Cool idea overall!
behehebd
Nice but come on paying 3.99 for more ink. You HP?
seweso
Why are places marked which have zero strokes? Why is the heatmap activating for places without strokes? Is something going wrong?
herghost
Ok, I give up. How am I supposed to draw something?
lfx
Cool idea, but you should consider required auth to ban trolls. On other hand, I wonder why many pictures are in the middle of the bridges or viaducts?
JanoMartinez
This is a really cool concept. I like the idea of turning the map into a kind of shared canvas. The fact that the strokes wrap around the 3D geometry instead of just being a flat overlay is a really nice touch. Curious — how do you handle moderation or prevent drawings from turning into spam once more people start using it?
lattrommi
How do you draw something? I can't seem to do anything but look, I even made an account. I went to look at the nearest locations to me with drawings but they all had nothing. I found the menu on the left side of the screen but that didn't do anything. To draw does it require becoming a paying subscriber?
anon115
the happy face on the sun lmaoooo