Urban Art Association

Iphone App : Street Artbook, by johann on Apr 22, 2015 17:11:51 GMT 1, Hi guys,

I have created a small application for Iphone that I hope you will enjoy
Before explaining to you the details of this app I would like to say that I got the agreement from Daniel before creating this thread to make sure that this will not bother them if I “advertise” it a little bit here 

I know that several applications have been created already regarding urban / street art but none of them were good enough for me, a lot of functionalities were missing, for some reasons they were always limited (by city, by artist...) which I always found to be a bad idea, you were not able to interact with others….

To give an example of my frustration, I m a big fan of Space Invader, he came in Hong Kong a few months ago and put some artworks all other the city, I lost a lot of time to find them as I was not sure exactly where they were, after a few days they were removed by the authority and I was not able to see all of them 
A few days back, I thought I would use Google Streetart to see the artworks that were still available. Some were there (but hard to find as not very precise) and some were removed when they were supposed to be still there according to Google….so much time wasted !

Here is what my app is doing in a nutshell :
- You can take a picture of a street artwork and it will automatically use the geolocalization to add it in Maps.
- You will be able to see the exact localization of all artworks from an artist all other the world as long as they have been uploaded by the artist or by an user.
- You can define within the notification settings if you want to receive an alert when you are not too far (you can refine the distance) from an artwork of an artist you are following
- An artist can send a request to upgrade is account to an official artist. All his upload will be automatically validated and will be considered as official spots.
- You can follow artists and your friends.
- You can comment & like artworks made or simply uploaded by friends/artists. This is an important functionality for me as I believe it is very important to be able to comment and share your feelings about something that was newly created/uploaded
- You will be able to validate an artwork to confirm the place and the accuracy of a new upload. I have made this function to remove all the potential “Fake” artworks that will pollute the feed.
- You will able to Revoke an artwork so that people will see that it is not available anymore and they won’t look after it
- You can share artworks created/ uploaded on Instagram, Facebook , Twitter

Here is what the app is not yet doing but I m planning to do :
- Ipad and Android version
- Wall Life : to be able to see what were all the artworks that could have been made on a wall . Street art is ephemeral, I want to capture it.
- Enhance picture – Maybe adding filters ?
- Share artworks by Mail, SMS
- I m adding progressively all the artists I know but obviously they are not all present, feel free to send me more names and I will add them straight away. I m thinking about opening this section so that everyone can add the Artist name they want but at the beginning I thought it was better with a list of “real” artist.


One of the most important thing is that I want this app to be the app of all street/urban art lovers and not only my app, therefore I m totally open to any suggestion that you think I could do to improve it.

I know already that there is some holes/bugs in the app that I m trying to fix but at some points you need to start to share it ! The app is multi languages and the traduction have been made by google translate please let me know if you see some weird phrases (I m sure there is as I can see already a few errors in French  )

Obviously, this app will be totally useless if no one upload artworks , I m taking picture of all street artwork I can see in Hong Kong but the help of you guys would be much appreciated to start this new adventure 

Here is the link of the app (free app):
itunes.apple.com/hk/app/street-artbook/id902349182?mt=8

Some pictures from the app :







PS: this is my first app please be kind if there are some bugs or things not clear ^_^ I m open to any feedback feel free to contact me by PM, hope you will like this app !

Hi guys,

I have created a small application for Iphone that I hope you will enjoy
Before explaining to you the details of this app I would like to say that I got the agreement from Daniel before creating this thread to make sure that this will not bother them if I “advertise” it a little bit here 

I know that several applications have been created already regarding urban / street art but none of them were good enough for me, a lot of functionalities were missing, for some reasons they were always limited (by city, by artist...) which I always found to be a bad idea, you were not able to interact with others….

To give an example of my frustration, I m a big fan of Space Invader, he came in Hong Kong a few months ago and put some artworks all other the city, I lost a lot of time to find them as I was not sure exactly where they were, after a few days they were removed by the authority and I was not able to see all of them 
A few days back, I thought I would use Google Streetart to see the artworks that were still available. Some were there (but hard to find as not very precise) and some were removed when they were supposed to be still there according to Google….so much time wasted !

Here is what my app is doing in a nutshell :
- You can take a picture of a street artwork and it will automatically use the geolocalization to add it in Maps.
- You will be able to see the exact localization of all artworks from an artist all other the world as long as they have been uploaded by the artist or by an user.
- You can define within the notification settings if you want to receive an alert when you are not too far (you can refine the distance) from an artwork of an artist you are following
- An artist can send a request to upgrade is account to an official artist. All his upload will be automatically validated and will be considered as official spots.
- You can follow artists and your friends.
- You can comment & like artworks made or simply uploaded by friends/artists. This is an important functionality for me as I believe it is very important to be able to comment and share your feelings about something that was newly created/uploaded
- You will be able to validate an artwork to confirm the place and the accuracy of a new upload. I have made this function to remove all the potential “Fake” artworks that will pollute the feed.
- You will able to Revoke an artwork so that people will see that it is not available anymore and they won’t look after it
- You can share artworks created/ uploaded on Instagram, Facebook , Twitter

Here is what the app is not yet doing but I m planning to do :
- Ipad and Android version
- Wall Life : to be able to see what were all the artworks that could have been made on a wall . Street art is ephemeral, I want to capture it.
- Enhance picture – Maybe adding filters ?
- Share artworks by Mail, SMS
- I m adding progressively all the artists I know but obviously they are not all present, feel free to send me more names and I will add them straight away. I m thinking about opening this section so that everyone can add the Artist name they want but at the beginning I thought it was better with a list of “real” artist.


One of the most important thing is that I want this app to be the app of all street/urban art lovers and not only my app, therefore I m totally open to any suggestion that you think I could do to improve it.

I know already that there is some holes/bugs in the app that I m trying to fix but at some points you need to start to share it ! The app is multi languages and the traduction have been made by google translate please let me know if you see some weird phrases (I m sure there is as I can see already a few errors in French  )

Obviously, this app will be totally useless if no one upload artworks , I m taking picture of all street artwork I can see in Hong Kong but the help of you guys would be much appreciated to start this new adventure 

Here is the link of the app (free app):
itunes.apple.com/hk/app/street-artbook/id902349182?mt=8

Some pictures from the app :







PS: this is my first app please be kind if there are some bugs or things not clear ^_^ I m open to any feedback feel free to contact me by PM, hope you will like this app !