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France - Then & Now!
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The roll-out of nearby by those clever Flickr code-monkeys is a very cool feature.
It's especially cool when the Commons photos are geotagged!
Happily, I noticed new uploads from Bibliothèque de Toulouse of the village Figeac are all geotagged. Yay!
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has a ton of terrific photos of places, bridges, doors, etc, and is a rich field to harvest Then and Now collections in. What will you find using the new nearby feature?
- Go to a Commons geotagged photo.
- Click Map on the right side of the page.
- On the map that opens, click "Nearby"
- Filter by all time and distance from center point.
- Show us what you're found here from France!
- Pont Valentré, Cahors, 1891
- 2006, from garethac
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- Pont Valentré, aval, Cahors, juin 1902
- 2006, from garethac
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- Notre-Dame-du-Puy, portail, Figeac, 1898
- 2008 from Wassup guys
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- Eglise Saint-Sauveur, Figeac
- 2006 from Norm and Dianne McNeill
Posted at 8:46AM, 11 February 2009 PST
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This is really quick, so still a bit rough around the edges, but it might help make those fantastic nearby Then & Now discoveries easier. This displays a map of all the geo-tagged Commons images and links them back to their respective nearby page. It displays 20 images per page.
www.paulhagon.com/playground/flickr/nearby/
I'll work on a better interface over time. In the meantime go exploring & see what discoveries you come up with.
Posted 11 months ago.
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Aren't you always clever! This looks great. :)
Posted 11 months ago.
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Very cool, great job!
Posted 11 months ago.
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That's pretty cool, Paul!
I think i may put Figeac on my 'List of Places to Visit One Day'.
It looks pretty- Then *and* Now!
Posted 11 months ago.
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Inspired by today's blog (which links here, thank you!) -- not France, but another demo of what "nearby" can do:
The Alkmaar cheese market, earlier in the 20th century:
The Alkmaar cheese market today, as a tourist attraction:
Originally posted 10 months ago.
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Lú_ (a group admin) edited this topic 10 months ago.
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Figeac is the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champollion
Posted 10 months ago.
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(a tangent but)... I immensely enjoyed my freshman Art History class taught by Linda Schele (before she died), a major contributor to the decipherment of the Mayan ones!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Schele
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I did not know Linda Schele. RIP.
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