powered by VERA PI

Metro Mode Camera

Point it at a building. See the whole house.

1. Allow camera and location
2. Point at a building or a sight
3. Read, listen, save

Your picture and your location stay on your phone.

A façade does not tell you what lies behind it. Aim your phone at any building in Stockholm: GPS and compass lock the building in front of you and draw its outline in the picture, live, and VERA PI reads what its databases hold on it – the build year and the architect, the association and the fee, the sun façade by façade and VERA PI Score. Anywhere in Stockholms län.

How it works

Point at a sight in New York – the camera works out what you are looking at and tells its story.

ExampleA sight

STATUE · NEW YORK

Statue of Liberty

Built 1886 · Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

Near you

• Fort WoodFortification1 min · 10 m
• Statue of Liberty National MonumentMonument10 min · 570 m
• Castle WilliamsFortification36 min · 2170 m

Share card · 1080×1350

• The sight you are looking at, within 400 metres
• Photo, year, architect, a short Wikipedia text and what's on
• Sights near you – plus a share card

Example: Statue of Liberty in New York from the sights data (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons), chosen for the town you are in.

Nothing you photograph is kept: the photo stays on your phone and your position is used for the answer only. VERA PI shows a building, never a flat, and never the name of anyone who lives there.

Allow the camera, your location and motion when the phone asks. Inside a building, tap I'm inside. On iPhone, Share → Add to Home Screen puts VERA PI one tap away.