Thursday, October 10, 2013

Smithsonian's interactive before-and-after maps of American cities

From the Discovery News Blog:

In an elegant cartographic union of old and new, Smithsonian's interactive before-and-after maps of American cities let users peer into the past and see how it compares with the present. The magazine dug through Cartography Associates President David Rumsey's collection of over 150,000 maps and selected six vintage renderings of the following cities: Chicago, Denver Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York and San Francisco.
Images of the antique maps were overlaid onto satellite images from today. Users navigate a spyglass around the maps, offering a peephole into what metropolitan landscapes looked like hundreds of years ago.
Check out: What Did San Francisco Look Like in the Mid-1800s?

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