Beeldenstad.net, the brainchild of Babak Fakhamzadeh (Bag Factory Artist in Residence), was started as an informal way to track art in public spaces in several cities in Europe. Last year, Google Maps functionality was added to display public artworks on a map of some of those cities.Beeldenstad.net is fully user driven, meaning that anyone can submit artworks and photos, the latter either directly through Beeldenstad.net, or alternatively through the popular photo sharing service Flickr.com.
During Babak's third month as a resident artist at The Bag Factory, he worked together with Eric Itzkin of the department of Arts, Culture and Heritage of the city of Johanesburg, to identify and map some 50 public artworks and bring them to Beeldenstad.net, most of them with extensive information on the individual artworks.
Now, Beeldenstad.net also offers KML and GeoRSS feeds for displaying geospatial information inside Google Earth or Google Maps.
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