Comments on: Vintage snapshots of San Francisco pt. 2: Google-mapped

By: Ross McCallum

Ross McCallum — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:39:53 +0000

Amazing. Now that’s one of the absolute best uses I’ve ever seen for Google Maps. Dan must have really spent a lot of time putting that all together. Great work !!

By: EB

EB — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:32:36 +0000

What great photos and Dan officially rocks for putting that map together! Very very cool.

By: johnnyo

johnnyo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:21:27 +0000

I had no idea about your links, thanks for pointing them out — a bunch of archives there I didn’t know about.

I pinged the guys at Mapjack suggesting that they geolocate and link the Calisphere and SF Library photos to their street side images.

I figure they get the basic location down, and then get us users to properly align the images.

Here’s their feedback link, feel free to suggest the same to them. :)

By: richard - sparkletack

richard - sparkletack — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:52 +0000

As long as we’re talking about photo archives, don’t forget that there’s a huge list of them right on this website, under the “Rummage through history” link in the sidebar.

Start mapping, people!

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:01:01 +0000

Dan Rocks!

How about the SF Library photo archives?

http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=valencia&SORT=D&x=0&y=0

(I chose Valencia to narrow the list.)

Or the University of California archives?

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/search?keyword=valencia&keyword-add=san%20francisco&facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&brand=calisphere&x=0&y=0&startDoc=76

There are some real gems in there.

Now if you could hook these archives up to Google Street View or Mapjack and align the photos…

By: See mid-50s San Francisco on a Google Map | gang of snails - stuff about san francisco

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:55:12 +0000

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