From earthmine:

Transforms the Urban Environment Into a Canvas Anyone Can Modify With Palette of Interactive Geo-Tagging Tools

San Jose, CA – May 20, 2009 – earthmine, inc. today unveiled Wild Style City (http://www.wildstylecity.com), a virtual graffiti application that turns the urban environment into a canvas that any user can annotate with a palette of interactive geo-tagging tools. Announced at the Where 2.0 conference being held this week in San Jose, California, Wild Style City is a “virtual” world that recreates the graffiti sub-culture that exists in real urban environments. The application is uniquely enabled by earthmine’s 3D street level imagery and Flash Viewer API and supports the company’s focus on delivering street level, 3D mapping software and data as a service. Wild Style City demonstrates both the flexibility and ease of use of earthmine’s technology platform and development tools and is free to users.

“Wild Style City is an exploration into what people create when given the ability to freely express themselves and their ideas in specific places,” said Anthony Fassero, co-founder and co-CEO of earthmine. “Viewers can enjoy the images, add to them, erase them or even start over. It’s as close as you can get to the graffiti experience without the obvious real world consequences. But just like in the real world, no piece of graffiti is permanent and can be removed or replaced by the community.”