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As
someone who loves maps, I really love projects where someone recreates a
visualizing of what they think a particular place looked like at a certain
point in time.
I
am currently aware of these projects ...
The
above projects focused on recreating the topography of these cities. Though the Ghosts of DC project (where the
second link takes you) also has a lot of images and maps for DC and area.
In
searching for more projects like the above, I actually came across something
called Visualizing
19th-Century New York (catch the video at the bottom for a quick context)
which isn’t quite the same since it focuses more on a visual perspective of
life in a particular area of NYC.
These
visualization projects make me feel like I am walking the streets of these
cities and add insight into what they were like to live in at the depicted
time. Yes, maps, especially Panoramic
maps (see Panoramic
Maps collection, Library of Congress) do help us visualize to an extant, when combined
with photographic images of a street and the whole 3D (e.g. kind of like street
views on Google) just takes it to a whole other level.
Do you know of other
projects where one can see a visualizing of a particular place at a particular
time?
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