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A Street Map of New York City in the 1800s

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Amazing thing I learned today: The "To Let" sign you stick on your apartment when you want to rent it has not changed at all in over a hundred years.

http://static6.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e7...

http://static1.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e8...

There are several more examples in the article's collection, all identical to the ones today, down to the font face, size, and use of white space.

Americans don't use that phrase anymore, only the British/commonwealth still do

I was more surprised by the title of the article than by the content of it. Looks like editors are writing "ready-to-reddit" headlines now.

Here's the actual site: https://www.oldnyc.org/

Version for San Francisco: http://www.oldsf.org/

Wow, that's an amazing level of dedication to mapping this all out. Looking at the about page, it looks like an good exercise in machine learning.

The developer talks about the process of generating the test data here: http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-04-20/generating-training-data/

This looks like a very similar problem to the one dropbox wrote about in "Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning": https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254517

Always something amazing about old photos. Always looks much better but I know in reality I probably would have lived in a ditch and died young. Would welcome a world with fewer people though.

So proud to see DanVK on the front page of HN. Way to go Dan!

I was under the impression he created Google Street View from old photos. The disappointment was big when it turned out the photos are only georeferenced and presented as markers on the map.

Yeah. That was a pretty misleading title.

He should add the photos to Mapillary, the open source version of Google Street View.

Mapillary isn't open source. One can fork the recently announced https://github.com/openstreetview though.

We are open sourcing anything that makes sense to do and can be reused by others, like https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM, traffico.io/examples.html and are working on open sourcing the apps too. However, putting out the docker setup of the backend is more hassle than use to anyone.

disclaimer: I am part of the Mapillary team.

No, Mapillary is not about history photos.

I can be, since the time perspective is maintained and can be filtered out, see http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/03/21/mapillary-js-sli...

Whatever, I'm still impressed. OP meant "Street View" in the figurative sense.

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