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Vancouver Open Data Catalogue: Graffiti Site Data

Feb 14th, 2010
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Just a quick note that in the second beta version of the Vancouver (BC) Open Data Catalogue, the city has released data on the location of “graffiti sites” — described as locations with “graffiti as identified by City staff”, along with information on the “number of graffiti incidents [at these sites].”1

I may try to do something with this data at the next Vancouver Open Data Hackathon I attend. If I do, I will post what I come up with either here on Graffiti Near Me or at marcusebarnes.com.

The data is currently available as DWG, SHP, and KML formats. I’m excited about the last format because it means I can more easily use the data with the Google Maps API (both JavaScript and Flash) and with Google Earth. For more information on the data set and how you can get your hands on it, please visit the Vancouver Open Data Catalogue Graffiti Site Data page.

QUESTION: Do you know of any other cities with open data about their “graffiti incidents”? If so, please share links to pages with more information in the comments section of this post.

References
  1. Data catalogue: Graffiti site data http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/graffitiSites.htm Accessed February 14, 2010.

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Mural & Graffiti Art Panels along Central Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Part 11

Jan 16th, 2010
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Graffiti mural along Central St. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Graffiti mural along Central St. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Please click the image to view a larger version.

Date: Early November 2009.

Location: The back wall of an industrial/commercial building along Central Street, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada (between Station Street and Western Street). Google Maps has a nice Street View showing the location and the panels. Central Street is just a 5 minutes walk south from the Main Street Skytrain Station. Walk another 5 minutes east and south and you get to OrganicLives where you can get some nice organic raw vegan food.

Photo Credit: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes of marcusebarnes.com and WEARMATH math t-shirts.

Misc. Notes: This is the eleventh part of a series of approximately 25 photographs of the mural and graffiti art panels along Central Street in Vancouver I plan on posting here on Graffiti Near Me. This graffiti mural features some nice black and red stylized bubble letters (which I’m unable to properly decipher at this time) on top of a faded city background. You can see that the panel is tagged on the lower portion with the date 2007. If anyone has information about this particular panel, please share in the comments section of this post. As always, I’d be totally cool if the artist could make some comments about this work.

Technical Notes: The photograph was taken with an Olympus Stylus 300 digital camera (a point-and-click). (Check out cameras and photography equipment on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.)

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Mural & Graffiti Art Panels along Central Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Part 8

Jan 5th, 2010
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Date: Early November 2009.

Location: The back wall of an industrial/commercial building along Central Street, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada (between Station Street and Western Street). Google Maps has a nice Street View showing the location and the panels. Central Street is just a 5 minutes walk south from the Main Street Skytrain Station.

Photo Credit: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes of marcusebarnes.com and Cartoon And Animation blog.

Misc. Notes: This is the eighth part of a series of approximately 25 photographs of the mural and graffiti art panels along Central Street in Vancouver I plan on posting here on Graffiti Near Me. From some of the other panels where the artists tagged their own work, it seems these panels went up around 2007. This mural depicts dark vibrant blue graffiti text overlooking the city-scape of buildings with the beautiful North Shore mountain skyline in the distance. I am unable to descipher the graffiti text, but it appears similar to the artist’s tag in the lower right corner of the photograph – if you can make out what it says, please share in the comments section of this post. If anyone has information about this particular panel, please also share your thoughts. As always, I’d be totally cool if the artist could make some comments about this work.

Technical Notes: The photograph was taken with an Olympus Stylus 300 digital camera (a point-and-click). (Check out cameras and photography equipment on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.)

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Now They Will Know We Were Here: YouTube Video Montage of Graffiti, Tag, and Mural Art from GraffitiNearMe

Nov 25th, 2009
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I have created a YouTube video montage of graffiti, tag, and mural art that has appeared or is set to appear here on Graffiti Near Me:

The title of the video was inspired by a mural panel depicting an inuksuk I recently featured. It reads in part “Now the People Will Know We Were Here” — this at least explains tag art to some degree :)

The backing music for the video was generously provided by Geoff Peters.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my very first YouTube video upload.

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Graffiti Art on the Wall at Larwill Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada – Part V

Jul 25th, 2009
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Graffiti Art on the Wall at Larwill Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Graffiti Art on the Wall at Larwill Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Date + Time: Friday, June 19, 2009. Approximately 2:30PM.

Location: Wall along Larwill Park, Beatty Street between W. Georgia Street and Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Photo Credit: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes of marcusebarnes.com.

Description (Keywords): Bubble text, bright colours.

Misc. Notes: There are many other pieces of graffiti art on the wall along Beatty Street (some of which will be highlighted in future posts). They were all probably added to the wall with permission, so they are rather permanent and won’t be painted over (i.e., destroyed) any time soon.

Technical Notes: Photo taken with an Olympus Stylus 300 digital camera (a point-and-click).

If you happen to be the artist who created this piece of graffiti art, it would be cool if you could add comments below about the piece or even submit a short article to Graffiti Near Me discussing the work.

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