MuralLocator:在线街头涂鸦艺术网是一个基于发现世界涂鸦艺术作品的网站，通过谷歌地图来显示出世界上最多的墙体壁纸涂鸦，用户也可以在这里提交你所发现的街头涂鸦地点，让更多的爱好者去欣赏。

涂鸦作为街舞文化(HipHop)里很重要的一个元素，一直是较为静态，游走在法律与艺术之间，但谁都不能就此否认它们的存在价值，因为涂鸦的起源本是如此。涂鸦的非法性，在于它所选择的地理位置，而非它的内涵、或者作画的形式。涂鸦被街舞文化文化所吸纳，成为其中重要的艺术象徵，也许正来自它的反叛宣示。

涂鸦的作者以喷漆瓶作为渲染情绪的画笔，表达自己对现今社会的看法和立场，以及对未来社会的憧憬和向往。MuralLocator就是把这些向往汇集在一起，从地图上标注出来，这样有助于涂鸦艺术的发展和展示每个城市的魅力。

The guys at Mural Locator site themselves as specialists in the geo-locating and archiving of murals found within the public realm. Their great database of murals and locations apparently uses 'strategic customised mapping and archiving technology' that helps the individual in their quest to find and discover murals all over the world. A great prospect for those of us who want to spend time researching and finding unique works of art in slightly more avant garde places.

Another great side to Mural Locator is the way it uses social media to build relationships within the mural arts community, helping to promote events, the murals themselves, artists and organisations.

Generally speaking Mural Locator is a simple site to use and navigate. The various sections on offer including 'News', 'Murals' and 'Events', are self-explanatory, which obviously makes for a good user experience. However, I do feel the sections are organised in such a way that the user won't get the smoothest of journeys at the first point of call; the homepage. There just seems to be too many sections to choose from. A simple date ordered blog based homepage, listing all new postings as they appear would be more effective in my opinion.

I find the most interesting and useful page on offer is the 'Mural Map' page. Via Google maps, it shows a world map with pins representing all the locations of murals that have been entered onto the site. This is s great inclusion, especially for people planning to travel, who hope to seek out some of the beautiful and thought provoking murals from the site. It also gives one the option to add a new mural via a simple data capture.