Mapping Main Street: A Collaborative Documentary Project

Hey, did I see you on Main Street the other day?  Maybe. Maybe not.

There are more than 10,466 streets named Main in the United States.   The collaborative project Mapping Main Street  has a goal to get photo, video, and stories to document all the Main Streets that exist.   The idea is to collect this in order to tell real stories about Main Street – whether it is an abandoned street, a main thoroughfare, where we work, or where we live.

The project started in 2009 and is still going strong.  To start the project some of the team behind the project went on a 12,000 mile road trip to visit Main Streets.  Some bands were commissioned to write songs for the project.

Recent posts on the site include some videos made on Main Street in Louisville by 29 student journalists, and on the Flickr photo site there are photos from Main streets in North Carolina and Vermont.

The project is produced supported by Maker’s Quest 2.0, an initiative between the Association of Independents in Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Been to main street?  Head on back and contribute a story, photo, or video of the project.  To date there are 881 Main streets documented – and over 9,000 to go.

Image Source:
www.mappingmainstreet.org/

Links:

www.mappingmainstreet.org/

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