all text in nyc
"a search engine that finds text in New York City's Google Street View images. Search for any word or phrase to see where it appears across the city—in shop signs, graffiti, advertisements, and protest signs"
Reverse engineering the incinerated Waymo - Placing Technologies
"[E]very time someone complains about vandalizing the Waymos in Los Angeles as some kind of violence against Alphabet’s balance sheet, just remember that Waymo isn’t profitable and never has been! They already lose money, the amount lost by destroying the car is pocket lint in the Alphabet balance sheet realm."
Places Overview
"100 million commercial points-of-interest (POI) worldwide and is rich with real-world information" some good open source data, but a lot of the actually interesting attributes (hours, tips, descriptions) are only available for $$$
Library Field – Syllabus
Shannon Mattern: "What if we imagined that Field as a Library: a public space, a social infrastructure, an intellectual and ecological commons, a site for the convergence of myriad ways of knowing?"