Great idea, borrowing a leaf from the Open Street Map, OSM concept. The Big Art Mob project can be seen as a cool project that is anchored on leveraging the power of Volunteered/Crowdsourced Geographic Information System to put on the map, all street/public arts around the world.

Big Art Mob developed an App which helps the users around the world to upload and geotag to map  any street/public art from their iphones or ipads.

If anyone discovers any public art, the Big Art Mob application helps the person to geotag and put it on map. The collections are maintained in the Big Art Mob database.

“We want to de-fragment how public art is documented and talked about, making a global hub for public art discovery,” says founder, Alfie Dennen.

Big Art Mob intends to generate fund for this project by partnering with institutions and also introducing paid walking routes on the application. On the other hand the API can be made available  on some fee to third party users who may want to connect to the datasource  from within their own applications.

For me, this is a cool way to engage the citizens as sensors to produce an amazing geodatabase of arts around the world. And definitely, this is really gonna be useful to lots of  third parties as being seen with the OSM project.

Source: Programmableweb.com