Street View of 80s NYC
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Street View of 80s NYC
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#2Nicely done! This is a great idea! I hope those photos from the 30s are digitized so they can receive the same treatment
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#3Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
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#4Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
Not that I know of. Without some way of knowing where and when they're from, I'm not sure how useful the data would be. It'd make an interesting project.
During WWII the UK government (maybe the US? I'm unable to find a reference but the search terms are pretty generic) requested pictures and postcards from people who'd taken recent trips into Europe. They wanted them for intelligence reasons - I think it was the UK.
That's the closest thing I can think of, where there's been a request for massive photos. They wanted people to include information about locations and dates, as I recall.
Someone here might be a historian and know more details than I do.
But, it seems like it'd be a large pile of data and work. Unless they knew when and where they came from, I'm not sure how much value they'd have - other than aesthetics.
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#6Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
This is similar to this one for SF http://www.oldsf.org/
Looks like the NYC one has more coverage though.
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#7Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
Not that I know of. Without some way of knowing where and when they're from, I'm not sure how useful the data would be. It'd make an interesting project. During WWII the UK government (maybe the US? I'm unable to find a reference but the search terms are pretty generic) requested pictures and postcards from people who'd taken recent trips into Europe. They wanted them for intelligence reasons - I think it was the UK.…
> But, it seems like it'd be a large pile of data and work. Unless they knew when and where they came from, I'm not sure how much value they'd have - other than aesthetics.
You're right, its a huge pile of work. Without the geotag and temporal EXIF data, you're relying on machine vision/structure from motion (think https://mapillary.com) to rebuild 3D scenes solely from image data.
https://help.mapillary.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001770329-Ma...
"Mapillary uses a technology called Structure from Motion (SfM) to create and reconstruct places in 3D. By matching points between different images, SfM is able to locate the point in a three-dimensional space and therefore determine its location on the map. The more images there are available for a specific point, the more accurately it can be reconstructed. In addition, SfM creates the kind of smooth transitions between images that you can see in the Mapillary viewer—again, provided that images have been taken within close proximity with enough overlap between them.
We also run semantic segmentation on the images. This means that the computer tries to understand what is in the image and assigns a category tag to each pixel. That enables us to detect different areas in the images (such as buildings, pedestrians, cars etc.). Semantic segmentation together with 3D reconstruction enables us to extract 3D positions of objects such as traffic signs and display them on the map. You can get more detailed information on what is currently available on our product page."
Disclaimer: No relation, just dig their tech (they're using machine vision to build world models for self-driving cars, using crowd sourced imagery).
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#8Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
Just to clarify, these pics are Tax Photos taken by the NYC Department of Records [1].
https://www.oldnyc.org does something similar.
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#9First thing I noticed was the ReactJS favicon...
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#10Seems that there would be quite a bit of historical value to getting everyone to digitize their personal photos and upload them to a shared repository. Has there already been such an effort?
This is similar to this one for SF http://www.oldsf.org/ Looks like the NYC one has more coverage though.
They also have a similar site for New York: https://www.oldnyc.org/