Comment by belugacat
3 years ago
I can't find it now, but there was a prototype someone made in the 2000s of a camera that, when you pressed the shutter, would fetch an image on Flickr that most closely matched your GPS coordinates + time of day, acting in a similar way as a "crowdsourced camera with no lens".
Fun to the see a modern reincarnation of that idea.
(While digging around to find the above, I did find yet another camera project that does the opposite: "Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descriptions, not pictures." (https://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/descriptive-camera-prints-...)
The Camera Restricta from ~2014 prevents the user from taking pictures of over-photographed scenes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221405
In 2013 a friend and I made a similar photo app (called parallelogram.me) but based on visual similarity instead of GPS coordinates: https://rybakov.com/parallelogram/
Don't forget https://confluence.org/
+1 Great time, we claimed "first" on three confluence points on the site. I find hilarious pictures of me on that site :-)
old thread, but: Sascha Pohflepp's “Buttons” (2006/2010)? Searches Flickr for same time, any location. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149468