Pinning Photo History to the Map
You are about to become a digital time-traveler with OpenMediaMap . There’s an undeniable nostalgic thrill in stumbling upon a century-old photograph of your own neighborhood - spotting the ghosts of buildings long gone or recognizing the outlines of streets that still exist today. By mapping vintage images, OpenMediaMap makes it possible to explore these moments geographically and experience the past as a place you can visit. OpenMediaMap is an open, crowdsourced platform dedicated to digitizing and geo-locating historical photographs - and in the process creating what could become the first global, freely accessible map of early photography. Before you add a comment to this post complaining that the map has no vintage photos of your neighborhood, remember - it’s your job to add them. OpenMediaMap allows anyone to submit photographs dated before January 1, 1930. Contributors simply upload an image and, if they know it, add the location. Once coordinates are attached, the photograph a...
