Draft talk:Street View Social

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because all of the information is true and I am the founder and operator of Street View Social. All information posted is 100% true and I am the source.

A novel tool, not a conventional business listing

Street View Social (SVS) pioneers an address-based “guestbook” layer on top of Google Street View. It lets users tag memories, time-stamp the years they lived at an address, and reconnect anonymously with other past residents. This functionality does not exist in Facebook, Google Maps, Nextdoor, or other social platforms, making SVS a new category of location-based social networking.

Clear encyclopedic value

The project intersects multiple notable domains—digital oral history, geospatial humanities, and privacy-preserving social graphs. These topics have been covered in mainstream sources (e.g., The Atlantic on “memory maps,” Wired on “geo-social nostalgia”). SVS is a tangible implementation of those ideas, so describing how it works adds encyclopedic context to those broader trends.

Neutral, verifiable article scope

The draft already avoids promotional language and sticks to verifiable facts: founding date, technology stack, public-beta timeline, core features, and user-privacy design. It cites independent sources and does not include pricing, marketing slogans, or investor information.

Precedent on Wikipedia

Similar “tool-first” pages exist—e.g., What3Words, Periscope, BeReal—which cover innovative web apps and social networks in early stages provided they’re sourced properly. SVS fits this model better than “corporate” pages flagged under WP:CORP.

Request: Please remove or decline the CSD tag so the article can proceed through the normal AfD/merge process, where notability and sourcing can be evaluated rather than speedily deleted.

--142.114.119.169 (talk) 17:42, 7 June 2025 (UTC)