Historypin

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 16, 2011 Under: Data

Historypin..

is a service that Local History Practitioners will find invaluable;

allows anyone with a Google account to place images within the setting of current Google Maps Streetview imagery;

allows visitors to explore the imagery added by others.
- To explore the imagery on Historypin...
  - zoom in on a location; and
  - select a range of dates on the Historypin timeline.

Learn more about Historypin in the video below...

Visit http://www.historypin.com/ to try it out and/or to get your village/town/city/region on the map.

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John Dalziel

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I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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