Similar Projects
There are many other photo georeferencing projects out there! And many of them are awesome. Below is a table of external projects similar to Yesterdays.
| Name | License | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Curatescape | license unknown (source) | A framework for adding "location-based narrative storytelling and walking tours to Omeka Classic," powering sites including Cleveland Historical and MunichArtToGo. |
| Fotopolska.Eu | unknown | Prominent photo discovery and georeferencing platform based in Poland with extensive coverage. |
| Helsinki ennen | unknown | Interactive map of Helsinki by decade, with photos and videos overlaid on historic maps. |
| Hillview | proprietary (source) | Annotated panoramas, with a unique interface for finding vantage points. |
| historypin | proprietary | A global collaborative project which includes photos on an interative map, filter-able by date. |
| Humap | proprietary | A 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 | unknown | A map of photo collections from San Francisco Public Library. |
| OldTO | unknown | A map of historical photographs in Toronto. |
| Old Zurich in Photos | Apache 2.0 (source) | An impressive, interactive 3D map of Zurich with photo pins overlaid. |
| OpenSFHistory | unknown | An online catalog of historical photographs of San Francisco, including a slippy map. |
| Our Town Stories | unknown | An interactive map featuring photographs, videos, and other multimedia experiences telling stories of Edinburgh. |
| 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" |
| PhillyHistory | unknown | A photograph exploration platform from the City of Philadelphia, including advanced search options with a map of results. |
| Route 66 Postcard Map | proprietary | A visualization of Route 66 postcards created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, using ArcGIS StoryMaps. |
| SepiaTown | unknown | A platform for users to upload and georeference photos, presented on a slippy map. |
| Smapshot | see description | Featureful platform based in Switzerland. Includes a slippy map and advanced georeferencing tools. API code is published under a BSD 3-Clause license, frontend code unknown. |
| Urban Archive | unknown | A platform for exploring historic photos of various cities, with specific institutional partners and an interactive slippy map of addresses and points of interest. |
| Vintage Greece | unknown | An interactive map of historical photos in Greece, with categorical filters. |