Mapping Novel York's Historical Photos

The New York Public Library has done a wonderful project inwards geo-rectifying thousands of historical maps from their collections. Now thousands of the library's historical photographs get got likewise been geo-tagged.

OldNYC is a Google Map locating 80,000 NYPL historical photographs of New York to the closest intersection. Click on a marking on the map together with yous tin sentiment historical photographs of New York taken nigh that location. You tin fifty-fifty purpose Google Maps Street View to explore the same views portrayed inwards the photos equally they hold back inwards New York today.

OldNYC was created past times the same squad that built OldSF. OldSF is a similar map for San Francisco, which allows yous to browse historical photos from the San Francisco Public Library collection.