Recently I decided to set myself a big photography challenge. The three options which I discussed with a couple of people were:
- Photograph the front of every pub in the
nearby areacity-centre. - Photograph ever plaque, monument, and statue in the city-centre.
- Photograph every gravestone and memorial bench in the city centre.
Ultimately I decided pubs would be most fun. Not least because you could do it every year or two, to see what changes occurred.
To make it more useful I decided to not only take the pictures, but to collect, and share, the meta-data too:
- Lat/Longditude GPS for each pub.
- Contact details for each pub.
- etc.
Today I spent an hour walking up Easter road, and down Leith Walk. I shot the outside of about 20 pubs, and then fiddled with the layout and organization of the images.
I'm reasonably happy with the result, but it remains obvious that I'm not a designer.
The data-set use to generate the site - which is perhaps the most interesting/useful part of the whole exercise to other people - is available online too:
All the data, even the images, is stored on github for collaboration purposes. I'm not sure if folk will join in, but I can probably manage a few of the major thoroughfares every weekend indefinitely it will only take a couple of days to get "city-wide coverage", then the rest is gravy.
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