You tin at 1 time assistance the New York Public Library geotag its collection of vintage photographs of New York City. The NYPL's novel Surveyor map is a citizen scientific discipline projection designed to hep the library index its collections of historical photographs past times location.
Visit the novel Surveyor website together with y'all volition live on shown a vintage photograph from the NYPL collection. All y'all convey to practice is exhibit the place depicted inwards the photograph past times clicking on the interactive map. Luckily many of the photographs convey an address inwards the photo's championship or associated data. This makes the chore relatively easy, fifty-fifty if y'all don't know New York really well.
You besides don't bespeak to worry almost non knowing the place shown inwards a photo. If this is the instance y'all simply bespeak to press the 'skip' push to movement on to the adjacent photo.
Many of the photos inwards the NYPL's Digital Collections are inwards Earth domain. This agency that y'all volition live on able to role many of the photos that y'all geotag inwards your ain interactive maps. Just similar OldNYC has done alongside its interactive map of 40,000 vintage photos of New York from the NYPL’s photograph collections.
