Update Google Street View in New Orleans!: June 2012

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Ghosts of Demolition: House at Frenchmen & Villere (Seventh Ward)

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/25/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012.

Thanks to John Bowman for the tip!

Friday, June 29, 2012

Ghosts of Demolition: HANO Housing Projects

A strange game you can play with Google Maps in New Orleans:

1. Find the site of a demolished HANO public housing complex in Satellite View, such as B.W. Cooper.

2. Hover over this empty site and find a spot you'd like to see in Google Street View.

3. Lo and behold: the site is no longer empty.

The HANO projects that were demolished post-Katrina -- St. Bernard, Lafitte, B.W. Cooper, Magnolia/C.J. Peete -- still appear in Google Street View today.

St. Bernard:

Magnolia:

Lafitte:

And for comparison, Lafitte today:

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Dumaine & N. Roman (Treme)

Google image date: August 2007. Street View screenshot taken 6/28/2012.

Photo taken 6/28/2012.

Boarded-Up Houses on Orleans & Dupre

Google image date: August 2007. Street View screenshot taken 6/28/2012.

Photo taken 6/28/2012.

New Orleans is now the fastest-growing major city in the U.S.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-28/katrina-comeback-makes-new-orleans-fastest-growing-city.html

Even more reason for Street View to be updated and reflect this city's resilience.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

St Philip & Villere St (Cafe Treme)

Google image date: June 2008. Screenshot taken 6/27/2012.

Photograph taken 6/27/2012.

FEMA Trailers on S. Galvez between Delachaise & Gen Taylor (Broadmoor)

This one took us aback when we got there to check it out.

Google image date: August 2007. Street View screenshot taken 6/27/2012.

Photograph taken 6/27/2012.

No dumpster, no FEMA trailers...and an entirely new house.

The developer of Google Maps Mania, a blog that tracks "the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps," created a nifty app that slides between the Google Street View images and photographs we've posted on this site.

Original post here. Thanks, Google Maps Mania!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

St. Anthony & Marais (Seventh Ward)

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/26/2012.

Photo taken 6/21/2012.

FEMA Trailers on Bartholomew St (Upper Ninth Ward)

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/26/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Music St between Villere and Robertson (Seventh Ward)

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/25/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/25/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012.

FEMA Trailers in Bunny Friend Park (Gallier-Desire Streets, 9th Ward)

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/25/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012

Google image date: September 2007. Screenshot taken 6/25/2012.

Photo taken 6/25/2012

Thanks to the anonymous reader for this suggestion!

Claiborne Ave. and S. Miro st. (Frostop and Naked Pizza)

Google Image date: August 2007. Screenshot Taken June 27, 2012

Photo take June 27, 2012

a note: Frostop's mug was only put back up a few months ago. The upside-down mug was either intentionally left alone or at least somewhat enjoyed by management (they have shirts with an upside-down mug), so not having updated isn't inexcusable. Naked Pizza, however, has expanded world-wide since rebranding from "World's Healthiest Pizza"

Sunday, June 24, 2012

A lil' word on all this

We're doing this because Google Street View doesn't have a direct contact (that we could find) to address this. We've seen street view cars recently, but no change. I've sent complaint emails in the past, but really I'm not surprised that there wasn't a response. I would just be one person. A visual demonstration gets the idea across much better... and it's kind of fun.

So please chip in! This problem is city-wide and we'd love to be able to remove our own selective bias! Residences are OK... great even! The closer to the angle from the GSV shot the better, but it doesn't have to be.

We're not receiving anything for this, and once things are updated, we're done (though this will stay up for posterity's sake). Comments and suggestions are appreciated as well.

Most importantly, SHARE! SPREAD THE WORD! The whole point is to grab the attention of the all-seeing Google eye. Any way you can is great, though google devs are known to hang out on Google+.