Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings (washere.live)

I love it until fine I'll signup and love it again but then no you pay now. My 2 cents is all I have to give.

good work! this is like Wplace but in 3D

Good fun thanks! Found a cute cat in Buenos Aires. It seems you have quite a lot of activity already, is that all from HN in the last two hours or from something else before this?

How are the panoramas chosen? That is, can I select one that isn't currently on the map?

Cool idea, but of course the very first image I clicked into was a dick.

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A long, long time ago ... there was a browser extension or maybe an iframe, that allowed you to "comment" on public websites. Of course you weren't really commenting on the actual website, just some form of overlay. Anyway, it quickly devolved into lawsuits and rude comments if I recall correctly.

It is my belief that a time may come when we can all ‘write’ on, or link information to, any person, place, or thing, based on a melange of semantic anchors, and in that world there will be fewer secrets and more experts.

It's not very obvious which places are available for drawing. At first I thought it pulls Google street view, so I just zoomed in to some place I visited recently, but there was nothing.

So it turned out the spots on the map are actually the available panoramas, and not just a heatmap of the signatures.

Cool idea overall!

Nice but come on paying 3.99 for more ink. You HP?

Why are places marked which have zero strokes? Why is the heatmap activating for places without strokes? Is something going wrong?

Ok, I give up.

How am I supposed to draw something?

Cool idea, but you should consider required auth to ban trolls.

On other hand, I wonder why many pictures are in the middle of the bridges or viaducts?

This is a really cool concept.

I like the idea of turning the map into a kind of shared canvas. The fact that the strokes wrap around the 3D geometry instead of just being a flat overlay is a really nice touch.

Curious — how do you handle moderation or prevent drawings from turning into spam once more people start using it?

How do you draw something? I can't seem to do anything but look, I even made an account. I went to look at the nearest locations to me with drawings but they all had nothing. I found the menu on the left side of the screen but that didn't do anything. To draw does it require becoming a paying subscriber?

the happy face on the sun lmaoooo

Kinda fun, it'd be more fun to explore any street view

Digital/virtual graffiti. Just like in real life, you'll see good stuff and bad stuff.

how long did this take to ship?

Cool idea !! But a limited number of places which is understandable :)

Such a good idea, love it! How does moderation work though, in the case of certain writings or symbols that might need to be censored? Also would be cool to have more places available, from maybe Google street view?

That's really neat. I think it would be a lot more popular if there were more locations we could draw on, but I get why it takes time to add new ones.

Makes me wonder if something similar to this exists but just more of a "draw all over the globe" type of thing. No street view, just satellite view