Using Google maps to enter reports of strange smells
People in Japan who enjoy sharing news about odors can use Nioibu.com to mark their location and circumstances.
A few examples: watermelon smell, ferret odor, old lady stench, gasoline fumes, and curry.(Via Japan Probe)
Previously:
- Quest for low-odor cowshit - Boing Boing
- Masking the offensive odor of catastrophe - Boing Boing
- How humans track smells - Boing Boing
- Woman who has spent her life smelling like a rotten fish is ...
- Interview with a perfumer - Boing Boing
- Horseradish smell fire-alarm for waking up deaf people - Boing Boing
- Astronaut describes what space smells like - Boing Boing
- Jesus Christ, what is that smell? - Boing Boing
- Ansari back from space, which smells like burnt almond cookie ...
- Occupation: bad smell sniffer for NASA - Boing Boing
- Hot pepper spray reverses "permanent" loss of smell - Boing Boing
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...What about transient areas and warnings of extreme body odor? :-P
I am imagining the masses logging on, seeing where the desirable smells are, and gathering there. Just standing around, inhaling deeply, and smiling.
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"I am imagining the masses logging on, seeing where the desirable smells are, and gathering there. Just standing around, inhaling deeply, and smiling."
I am imagining a latecomer to this olfactory flash mob frowning and making a new post on niobu, to register the unpleasant smell of those congregated masses...
Looks like it is time for the "Weird Mutant Smells" tag.
I wish I could report a natural gas leak with this.
I'd like to see similar sites to report broken traffic lights, potholes and pretty much anything I see that's broken.
Well, on a few occasions in the past few years, people in Manhattan and NJ have reported a mysterious "maple syrup" smell on a few occasions. It's still a mystery. My hubby and I noticed it and were delighted to find a sort of underground/viral network of others who smelled it and were vaguely alarmed and mystified. Google it.
this reminds me, can anyone recommend a "how to" source on how to use Google Maps API on my own site? Is there anything in "Rule The Web" about this?
I am not a coder and have read Google's instructions and am still baffled.
sorry for the threadjack but at least I mentioned Mark's book...
i get a strange mashed potato smell around here.
it would be wonderful to find all the others who drive around and smell it as well. maybe we could meet at a diner and have some afterwards.
http://gothamist.com/2007/11/09/the_strange_sme.php