Look Back in Time with WhatWasThere.com

Sep 29, 2011 by Bryan

Here’s a really interesting site: WhatWasThere.com. This site leverages Google Maps and crowd-sourcing to provide a great interface to share and browse pictures from our past. I love finding pictures from Cincinnati’s past. There are not many there yet, but they do have a nice old picture of the Tyler-Davidson fountain, and some other early architecture.

From their site:

The premise is simple: provide a platform where anyone can easily upload a photograph with two straightforward tags to provide context: Location and Year. If enough people upload enough photographs in enough places, together we will weave together a photographic history of the world (or at least any place covered by Google Maps). So wherever you are in the world, take a moment to upload a photograph and contribute to history!

So go take a look. If you have some good pictures to add, do that as well.

Source: The-Gadgeteer.com

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