WhatWasThere - Put history in its place

by aaronbrethorst • 15 years ago

51 10 15 years ago

eavc• 15 years ago

This is very, very cool. Is it your project?

dtwwtd• 15 years ago

If I remember correctly, this was presented at A2NewTech [ http://www.a2newtech.org/ ] a few months back (I don't remember which month). They had a good demo and I really like what they're trying to do.

I wish there was a little bit of a better way to do side by side comparisons between Google Street View and the submitted photos. I'd prefer some sort of side by side vew than the fade in/out method it has right now. I'm not sure I have any ideas on how to make that better, for now.

E.g.: http://whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/42.278652,-83.73908...

Great job guys!

ben1040• 15 years ago

I remember seeing this in the demo pit at Google I/O and thinking it was one of the coolest things I saw there, because I love browsing historic pictures.

I then promptly forgot the name of the service so thank you for posting this. Now I'm going to go waste the rest of the night going through pictures here.

EricButler2• 15 years ago

Neat!

I'm working on something similar but with business listings. Currently has some initial data for San Francisco and I'm working to add more.

http://ghostpag.es/

prawn• 15 years ago

"Years: 1995.0, 1996.0, 1997.0" Awkward data presentation or are you planning an 'interesting' way of specifying something like May 1995 as 1995.5?

EricButler2• 15 years ago

Ack, no, just using the wrong format string. Will fix it soon, thanks.

rrival• 15 years ago

Love the concept and execution. Manually cross referencing "Then and Now" pictures from the Denver Library of Congress made history tangible and finally interesting for me.

thatusertwo• 15 years ago

Very nice cool site, good execution. Also impressed that this was built with ASP

unicornporn• 15 years ago

Very related: http://www.historypin.com/ (it also has the street view overlay functionality, see http://goo.gl/EVr92)

Somewhat related: http://www.oldsf.org/

bostonvaulter2• 15 years ago

I wonder if they're interested in local partners. I know a few people who've been thinking about doing this in Hawaii.

WhatWasThere - Put history in its place

Related Stories