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I wish there was a website where people can upload and view historic photos of roads and places on a map UI (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sometimes I go past an old looking building or see some traces of old signage on a store and wonder what they used to be, especially when those traces are hard to read or obscured.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

This should be a Google maps feature, how cool would that be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Doesn't Maps or Google Earth have a time-line for places now? Thought it started 4 or 5 years ago, so it's not everywhere yet.

Though I think that's just fairly recent images and such. Maybe it permits us submitting really old info/photos?

You could probably set this up on a shared map, getting people to help/contribute/not be a troll would be the challenge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thay's what I was thinking. Google maps/street view only goes back to the late 00s, but I'd like to go back as far as the early 20th century if not earlier

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