Archive for April, 2011

Krantz and Shel­don archi­tec­tural images meets Google StreetView

With Lib­rar­y­Hack and the State Lib­rary of WA day of hack approach­ing, I needed a demo, a quick look at the data­sets that the State Lib­rary of WA made avail­able. I settled on the Krantz and Shel­don archi­tec­tural pho­to­graphs. As this was a small set of pho­tos, I did not have to search through a whole col­lec­tion of 50,000 images look­ing for a suit­able theme, as this data­set already had a theme, the work of Krantz and Shel­don in Perth in the 1960s and 1970s. For­tu­nately most had some basic geo­loca­tion data, such as addresses.

The ori­ginal concept was to pro­duce an anim­a­tion, using CSS3, HTML5 and javas­cript, show­ing the Krantz and Shel­don pho­to­graphs along­side the cur­rent Google Streetview. I have not had the chance to anim­ate the sequence yet …

aka a square peg in a round hole

When I was cre­at­ing the Krantz and Shel­don archi­tec­tural pho­to­graphs meets Google Streetview mashup, (more posts to fol­low on that). I decided that as the Krantz and Shel­don archive was from the six­ties that instead of rect­an­gu­lar images, the images should be cir­cu­lar, which should of been a piece of cake using border-radius CSS3 prop­erty. As the dimensions …