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Similar Projects

There are many other photo georeferencing projects out there! And many of them are awesome. Below is a list of external projects similar to Yesterdays.

  • 1940s.nyc (proprietary), a visualization of photos taken by the Works Progress Administration in from 1939-1941. Includes user-submitted "stories".
  • 80s.nyc (BSD-2-Clause, source), "Street view of 1980s New York" including 100k street segments and 800k building photos.
  • Bexhill OpenStreetMap (GPL-2.0, source), featureful community mapping project of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England including historic photographs of POIs.
  • historypin (proprietary), a global collaborative project which includes photos on an interative map, filter-able by date.
  • Humap (proprietary), platform for displaying historical records on a map, with crowdsourcing elements. Powers sites such as Layers of London.
  • OldInsuranceMaps.net (GPL-3.0, source), a crowdsourcing site where users can georeference and stitch together pages of Sanborn insurance maps. Creator Adam Cox is a friend and supporter of Yesterdays, and we use OIM mosaics on our sites.
  • OldNYC (Apache 2.0, source), a map of NYPL photo collections with crowdsourced elements including OCR'd metadata corrections.
  • OldSF (license unknown), a map of SFPL photo collections.
  • Paris, Texas — The Fire of 1916 (proprietary), an interactive map of photographs related to the 1916 fire, with multiple basemap options.
  • PastVu (AGPL-3.0, source), a collaborative platform for "curating, annotating, attributing, and discussing vintage pictures around the world"
  • Route 66 Postcard Map (proprietary), a visualization of Route 66 postcards created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, using ArcGIS StoryMaps.