Historypin Worldwide Launched

Historypin WorldWide Launched



The Successfully UK London Launch in 2010 has now expanded worldwide.

Last year Historypin was beta in London. The historical photographs overlayed on Google Maps StreetView become very popular. Now officially launched with a new mobile applications and worldwide coverage.

"Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.

Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.

Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world."

http://www.historypin.com/

Source
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/07/historypin-goes-global.html

Historypin - Streetview with History

Historypin - Streetview with History
*Historypin was built with Google and they provided invaluable support throughout the process.

update: Nice introduction to HistoryPin with this video.



"Historypin is a online tool that acts as a digital time machine, allowing people to view and share history in a totally new way."


Sharing Past memories and important events with Google Streetview and Historical Photography display correctly in 4D space.

"Historypin invites the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin allows users to layer their old images onto modern Street View scenes, revealing a series of windows into the past."
http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/generations/

Interactive Timeline
One of the most useful tools for finding historical photographs is the interactive timeline that can span as far back as 1840's.


Use the time-line interactive slider to find more recent or past photographs whilst in the map/streetview mode.
Using Google Maps and Street View technology, Historypin aims to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories.

The site invites the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin allows users to layer their old images onto modern Street View scenes, revealing a series of windows into the past.

Trafalgar Square, London.
http://www.historypin.com/photos/search/streetview/1/radius/969778/bounds/56.523139564372194,9.99755859375,50.90303283111257,-18.12744140625/zoom/0/geo/53.800651,-4.064941/date_from/1840-1-1/date_to/2010-6-3/yaw/292.37/pitch/5.95

same link in human terms: http://tinyurl.com/historypin-trafalgar-sq

More information:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/06/largest-archive-of-photos-on-google.html

Main website: http://www.historypin.com/

Go straight to the Map - http://www.historypin.com/photos/

Creators - http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/