Mapping the Commons’ Images
Posted by zyrcster in ToolsFlickr member Paul Hagon creates a fabulous mash-up, illustrating the power of the Commons. Here, Flickr meets Streetview, using the Flickr Commons’ images of New York in the 1930s from the New York Public Library. Paul also mapped images from the Powerhouse Museum, the State Library of New South Wales and the National Library of New Zealand.
Paul Hagon’s Street View Mashups:
- New York street view mashup
- Powerhouse Museum street view mashup
- State Library of New South Wales street view mashup
- New Zealand street view mashup
Tags: Flickr API, maps, mash-up, National Library of New Zealand, New York Public Library, Powerhouse Museum, State Library of New South Wales
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
[...] at the Indicommons blog, Paul Hagon has been mashing-up commons photos from Flickr and Google Streetview. I wish more museums did this. Almost every local museum in the UK has a photo collection of the [...]
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I love the idea that at some point, as we explore the ways we can now technically map photographs of the past onto the present , we’ll find out what we *can’t* yet do.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
[...] Hagon is the mashup developer whose amazing mashups of Google Maps and images from the Commons were featured on Indicommons [...]
October 1st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
[...] has turned him into a detective or citizen journalist. National Library of Australia web developer Paul Hagon will discuss his project that enables the community to geo-tag contemporary images alongside [...]