Help Geotag Novel York's History

You tin right away attention the New York Public Library geotag its collection of vintage photographs of New York City. The NYPL's novel Surveyor map is a citizen scientific discipline projection designed to hep the library index its collections of historical photographs past times location.

Visit the novel Surveyor website together with you lot volition survive shown a vintage photograph from the NYPL collection. All you lot bring to practise is present the place depicted inwards the photograph past times clicking on the interactive map. Luckily many of the photographs bring an address inwards the photo's championship or associated data. This makes the business relatively easy, fifty-fifty if you lot don't know New York real well.

You likewise don't involve to worry nigh non knowing the place shown inwards a photo. If this is the illustration you lot simply involve to press the 'skip' push to motion on to the adjacent photo.

Many of the photos inwards the NYPL's Digital Collections are inwards the populace domain. This agency that you lot volition survive able to operate many of the photos that you lot geotag inwards your ain interactive maps. Just similar OldNYC has done alongside its interactive map of 40,000 vintage photos of New York from the NYPL’s photograph collections.