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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