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Be a helluva undertaking, but I imagine there exists overhead photos of New York during the same period which could - with current tech - recreate a pretty effe
by canada_dry 8y ago
Be a helluva undertaking, but I imagine there exists overhead photos of New York during the same period which could - with current tech - recreate a pretty effective 3D street view where the missing bits are extrapolated.
Probably not a whole lot of value, but a damn interesting exercise!
- xefer 8y agoThe USGS has historical high resolution aerial photographs for large portions of the country, some places going back to the 1930s: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ The interface is really clunky but some of the data is amazing. On the first tab on the right, select "Search Criteria", select "Coordinates" which allows you to put the points of a polygon on the map. Next, select the "Data Sets" tab. Select "Aerial Photography | "Aerial Photo Single Frames" The "Results". If there are any, thumbnails show up. You can then download the actual images which can be huge. Once you get used to the interface, you can narrow the results down by date, etc.
- ericb 8y agoWhat is the name of the tech used to do this. Also, what is the name of the tech (or open source implementations) that makes data like this explorable with drill-down? I'm looking into projects like this.