Smile, you're on (Pattaya) candid camera

[Hmmm]

Roving candid camera snaps Thailand's Sin City

"If you were strolling past the fleshpots in the Thai resort town of Pattaya recently, be warned: you might have been photographed and now, thanks to a company called MapJack, anyone in the world can see what you were doing."

Full story here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/candi ... ntentSwap1 (http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/candid-camera-in-sin-city/2008/05/28/1211654085663.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1)


Some still pics here:
http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/2 ... 86496.html (http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/2008/05/28/1211654086496.html)

Take a tour for yourself here:
http://www.mapjack.com/

It's kind of like a motocy ride through Pattaya. Admittedly you have to look hard to see much.

While I respect our TG / TV friends as much as the next man, the 2 ladyboys pictured in the newspaper story do look like they might have gone a few rounds with BBB and come off second best.

[Jetsam]

hehe, some people should just give up to want to be a transvestite


http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/05/28/mapjack8_gallery__504x400.jpg

[dab69]

now the site only does chiang mai and a few other places, no pattaya?

[lonelywombat]

From Breaking News on The Age website 30 May

Stephen Hutcheon
May 30, 2008 - 8:58AM

Web mapping company MapJack has removed detail-rich images of streetscapes in Pattaya, including those featuring the Thai resort town's many carnal delights.

The Pattaya pages now shows screens with the message: "There are no images in the selected area".

The removal of the images - some of which showed Western males mingling with bar girls in the town's red light district - came after smh.com.au published a report into the company's innovative mapping product on Wednesday.

MapJack has not responded to queries about the changes, but a new entry on its Wikipedia page suggests it is not a technical glitch.

"On May 28, 2008, MapJack temporarily removed Pattaya imagery from its site, and is planning to edit out the controversial imagerly [sic] prior to reinstating it," the unsourced entry reads.

MapJacks street level photos are taken by special cameras mounted on cars an in some cases carried on backpacks.

They are then stitched together using software that creates a 180 degree panoramic effect. These image sets are then overlayed onto maps.

MapJack's Pattaya images were taken on March 27 and 28 this year, according to the data contained on the photos. Based on the number of closed store fronts and the direction of the light, the photos appear to have been taken in the morning.

Despite that, there are still large numbers of bars in the red light areas that are open for business as well as more than a few non-local males in the vicinity.

The quality of the images means it is very easy to identify many of the people captured in the photos - especially those photographed in the narrow back alleys of Thailand's original "Sin City".

Google Maps offers an almost identical function in its Street View feature. However, unlike MapJack, Google has said it will obscure the faces of people photographed by its mobile camera crews to quell privacy concerns.

In addition to Pattaya - well known as a destination for sex tourism - MapJack offers streetscape imaging in Chiang Mai and four US destinations. It plans to add further locations in the US and Thailand later this year.

In an interview conducted earlier this month, a MapJack spokeswoman said the company would, if requested, remove or obscure images, but she said to date, there had been no complaints.

Although the links to Pattaya map and the images can no longer be found on MapJack, they can still be found on another site called pattayaphotoguide.com.

[Hmmm]

The tour takes you down Pattaya land soi 1 and back up Pattayaland Soi 2 (but not Soi 3).

Start your tour at the top of Soi 1 here ...
www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?ZouRU9TpkcgF7CNA (http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?ZouRU9TpkcgF7CNA)

... passing by Wild West Boys towards the top of soi 2 here ...
http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?mnuRUqGpkcdC

And then off to Jomtien.

You can drag the little man on the map or click on wherever you want to go along the fixed route.

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

Thailand's "Sin" City ??

since when did sex become a sin ?

I'd say Washington that orders the invasion of countries and the deaths of hundred's of thousands of innocent civilians could be classed as a Sin City.

Or how about Beijing-the capital of the province of Hong Kong where this intrusive camera technique emanates from...mowing down hundreds of protesting students in Tianamen Square-suppressing all civilian dissent..another genuine Sin City ?

cheeky bastards.