We’ve all used Google street view to find directions to a certain business, look at our own house, look at our old house, look at the weird houses on the other side of town, look at our exes house, etc., but this video uses it for a different purpose.
The new site is called SepiaTown (sepiatown.com) and it takes historic images of a certain street address and compares it to the current Google Street View image. Now, it’s not perfect yet, because there are only but so many historical images uploaded. You can’t, at this time, go in and type your address and have the program tell you what your street looked like in 1918. To be sure, they’ll probably get there, but for now you can just click on the images they’ve already uploaded, click the then/now option and see the difference.
A lot of major US cities are in the site already, and there is a place where you can upload historic photos of places that will become part of the site’s database. This site is a dream-come-true for people who like history, and it’s people like that who will make the site better.
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