In the archives of the Public library in new York can find a lot of old but very interesting pictures. You can spend hours to sort through vintage images and not see even half of the treasures. Despite the fact that over the past few years the library has made significant strides in digitizing your analog content, a significant part of their historical materials do not contain metadata and tags that modern Internet users have learned to take for granted.
But the library tries, and we get to evaluate their work. A new tool called Surveyor allows users to view the photograph archives of the library, providing detailed location data of the location in the photo and the direction in which the camera was looking when he made the. The aim of the app is to help resource Space / Time Directory, NYPL, which is a portal into the city’s past.
Surveyor can to some extent be compared to Tinder for fans of the story. The tool shows a photo, and if the user knows the image of her place, he can add it to the map. If users are not sure where this location is, they can just skip it.
Thus, we have an interesting resource that helps transform the ordinary walk in the city in time travel without machines and complex physics.
