The London Time Machine

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Post by kawera » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 8:10 PM UTC

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by Bromskloss » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

Similar things for Sweden, with a couple of different interfaces:

- Maps from today and from about 60 years ago. Slide the barrier left and right. https://kartor.eniro.se/?c=59.314311,18.069699&z=16&l=histor...

- Comparison between 20 different maps from 1625 to today. Click "Byt kartvy" (found at the right edge) to get a side-by-side view. https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/sok/?q=&map=true

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by adben » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 9:48 PM UTC

Comic sans?

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by notlisted » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

Nice. Not London, but the NY Public Library has a very nice set of "time traveler" tools for NYC here: http://spacetime.nypl.org/

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by mintone » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 11:09 PM UTC

I built a platform that does this a year ago, using a combined stack of human and AI (Comouter vision) - it’s somewhat in maintenance mode because I haven’t had time to work on selling it, but there’s a version of Paris on the home page: http://www.papermap.io

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by brailsafe » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 11:42 PM UTC

mintone wrote: post #5

I built a platform that does this a year ago, using a combined stack of human and AI (Comouter vision) - it’s somewhat in maintenance mode because I haven’t had time to work on selling it, but there’s a version of Paris on the home page: http://www.papermap.io

That looks really impressive and I'd be very curious to learn about how you put it together.

Also, what happened to "Our dedicated team of developers are improving the papermap system constantly so be on the lookout for new features coming soon!"? ;)

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by calpaterson » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 11:45 PM UTC

It's always incredible to me to how many areas of London are new. The East End here is some text describing City wards. The West End is names of sponsors. Chelsea isn't even within the bounds of the map. There is only a single crossing. Etc.

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by theoh » Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 11:50 PM UTC

calpaterson wrote: post #7

It's always incredible to me to how many areas of London are new. The East End here is some text describing City wards. The West End is names of sponsors. Chelsea isn't even within the bounds of the map. There is only a single crossing. Etc.

The original map dates from 1682, which didn't jump out if it was mentioned at all on the linked site. So "new" is relative, i.e. less than 335 years old.

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by dzdt » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 12:46 AM UTC

The location of streets and subdivision of property is incredibly long lasting. That makes it such an important part of city planning!

Re: The London Time Machine

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Post by mvexel » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 1:07 AM UTC

I really like the magnifying glass!

A comparison with much more recent history, OpenStreetMap in 2007 vs now: https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#13/51.5/0.0 - London is where OSM started, so it was pretty well mapped even in 2007 (OSM started in late 2004). If you look at other parts of the world or even the UK, it's easy to imagine how almost everyone thought it was a crazy idea that would never get off the ground.

There are some rendering issues (like water missing) due to the OSM schema going through some significant changes over the years.