WhatWasThere.com - Tying historical photos to Google Maps

[Lori Savageau]

Hi everyone! I recently stumbled across www.whatwasthere.com, a fun company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The WhatWasThere project lets users upload historical photographs, tagged with location and year, using the Google Maps API. The idea is to create a photographic map of world history. They're just getting started, but I thought it might be of interest to some of you avid mappers. 

If curious, you can see where users have already posted photographs. They are cropping up all over the world! Is your region photo-mapped?

[I MAP]

lets try it out !

[Arlete Meneguette]

Pals, let's Make History, Navigate Through Time with whatwasthere site.
My first uploaded photo:
http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#/ll/-22.1231384277344,-51.3881340026855/id/7488/info/
Photo Credits: Pedro Maciel (my student at Unesp)

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[Lori Savageau]

Arlete,

That's a beautiful photograph. Way to jump right in! 

It will be awesome if others continue to share their posts on WhatWasThere. We can get a sneak peak of your region's history!

[Arlete Meneguette]

Lori
As soon as you upload some photos to WhatWasThere send us the links so
we can visit your place virtually.
I have been playing with Photosynth as well and produced a 360
panorama in front of my department at the university:
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=96c6c103-2377-4421-8341-27203933700c
Cheers
Arlete

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[Jenna]

I love this!

This has wonderful opportunities to tie into genealogy research. 

[Lori Savageau]

Try out Historypin, too! Google has collaborated with the site, which has just expanded to mobile and global availability!

[Craig Peterson]

What a cool site, thanks for sharing!

[Mrs Cartagena 3218]

I have just joined & find this website a great tool for history lessons of our own great city! I love driving around the state which leads to some interesting buildings and their creators.

THANKS for the link!

[R01k]

It sounds great. Thanks for sharing!

[Margaret Schankler]

Thanks, Lori! Since you wrote this, we have grown tremendously. I wonder if anyone in this group has posted anything! Let me know if you have questions or feedback! e-mail me at mscha...@whatwasthere.com.