by tkgally on 2/3/25, 7:49 AM
It’s quite a bit more recent, but this reminded me of David Bleicher’s Instagram page “Then and Now London.” He takes photographs in the same London locations as photos taken decades ago and puts them side by side:
https://www.instagram.com/thenandnowlondon/
by noelwelsh on 2/3/25, 10:46 AM
I like the British Pathe films from the late 1890s / early 1900s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRiMS34KxQ&list=PLxYjYcgwal...(More examples in the playlist.)
Large parts of London still look the same, but the way of life is vastly different. Just on a surface level, you can see how roads are used differently (there are a few horses and a lot of pedestrians) and with poorly insulated buildings everyone has to wear insulation.
by Lio on 2/3/25, 8:09 AM
I love seeing the (1840) in the title.
For a split second it makes my pre-coffee brain think, my god that’s an old post!
by fritzo on 2/3/25, 5:00 PM
Feature request, can someone integrate this into the DOOM engine so one can navigate 19th century london?
by mediumsmart on 2/3/25, 7:34 AM
looks great once you zoom in but I don't get it. how do I open one of them to look at it - I can only zoom into the whole mosaic - why can I not click on one of them and bring it to the front or go to a page that deals with that view/street?
by seer on 2/3/25, 9:04 AM
There seems to be quite a lot of detail in all of these drawings, I wonder if one can't reconstruct an actual street view given all that data, and a few historical paintings to "seed the color and style" a bit. Probably not impossible to do with modern LLMs
by pwillia7 on 2/3/25, 9:58 PM
by aaronbrethorst on 2/3/25, 5:43 PM
by larusso on 2/3/25, 4:44 PM
I love it. Never seen this kinda concept before. But it totally makes sense to map whole streets like this.
by dostick on 2/3/25, 9:07 AM
Looks like the image in thumbnail preview is all you’re getting, and at that low resolution.
by TheRealPomax on 2/3/25, 5:16 PM
If there's a map, and a sidebar with overflow, please don't have a page-level scrollbar, put the scrollbar on the sidebar that needs scroll functionality =(