Shorpy Vintage Photos just posted a mashup with historic photos placed on a map of New York City

Too bad you can’t compare it to current Street View. Yet, at least.

I hope they plan eventual support for archival data. This could be incredibly interesting to someday choose a point and transition through the region’s development over time. Heck, if archivists could add their own collections of images (approx coords of photographer, time, and facing) you could make a remarkably robust visual time capsule for a region.

Flickr has a geotagging feature where you can place photos on a map:

Not only would it be interesting to archive photos that Google took with the van, an added function I would like to see would be for people to be able to upload their own photos, including old snapshots of the the area, so that way it could prove a more intuitive method of examining the past.

Incidentally, that’s one of the reasons I’m looking forward to playing Assassin’s Creed in a few weeks. The thought of walking around Jerasulem and Damascus as they really looked at the time of the Third Crusade is sweet.

I’ll eventually buy a GPS guide system for my car, but right now there are too many good games demanding my money in the coming months. =)