Via Scoop.it – Media convergence
A new, interesting Iphone App and project, similar to another Flickr project
A few new apps will tell you what used to be nearby, or even what might have been nearby — less practical but often thoroughly satisfying experiences.
WhatWasThere, a project that includes a Web site and a free iPhone app, allows people to post historical photographs, along with their location and date, and then browse what other people have posted on city maps. Since the project was started in February, about 12,000 images have been uploaded, 500 or so in New York City. Many come from institutional archives. But the developers of the project also urge people to post photographs from family collections as a way to put them in context before they are lost to history.
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