Historypin Overlays Google Street View with Historical Images

By John Farrier in Blogs & Internet, History on Jun 6, 2010 at 4:01 pm

Historypin is a crowdsourced project that places historical images and the events associated with them over pictures from Google Street View. Users are invited to submit their own pictures and stories to contribute to a world map of history.

Thinks about how awesome this could be in a few years when there’s an augmented reality app for cell phones.

Link via reddit


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  1. hmmm
    Jun 6th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    is it just me or is this pretty much only for the UK?

  2. farleyk
    Jun 6th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Sounds like a less interactive version of the geographic hacking described in William Gibson’s SPOOK COUNTRY.

  3. John Farrier
    Jun 6th, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    @hmmm — just keep scrolling the map around. I found several in the U.S.

  4. Mapper99
    Jun 7th, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Many Google Street View Privacy Invasions found here: Google Street View


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