This guy used over 80,000 old photographs to create a Google Street View map of New York City in the 1800s

New York City has a long and huge history, but when you look at the city today it is difficult to know what it was. Fortunately, proactive programmers have solved this problem by creating a Google street view map for New York City from late 19th century to early 20th century.

Developer Dan Vanderkam, in collaboration with the New York Public Library, mapped the New York City photo view to an interactive map. It is all old photos from the 1870s to the 1970s.

In this project called OldNYC, you can browse the 19th century New York as easily as clicking on Google Maps. This series contains more than 80,000 original photos

Please visit OldNYC's website or check where you are in the city with the best photos you saw during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Nassau Street and Wall Street (showing the Bunker Trust building under construction and the National Bank Building in Hanover), 1911

145th Street is the main street near the Harlem in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of 15 intersecting streets planned in the commissioner plan of 1811 with a grid of numbered streets built in Manhattan. It forms the southern boundary of Harlem's Sugar Mountain Community. 145th Street is on the west side of Henry Hudson Parkway (New York State Road 907 V), and passes through Riverside Drive, Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, Convent Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue. The street passes Edgecombe Avenue and Bradhurst Avenue. There, 145 Street forms the southern boundary of Jackie Robinson Park. Pass Frederick Douglas Avenue, Adam Clayton Powell Avenue, Lenox Avenue, cross the Harlem River and connect to the Bronx along the Harlem River through the 145th Street Bridge.

Google Street View is currently only available in some US cities, created by creating a series of city photos and creating virtual street images. Some images contain identifiable individuals and services are being attacked as they may violate the privacy of individuals. Canadian privacy officer Jennifer Stoddart said this week that he wrote to Google because she was concerned that the system could be illegal in Canada. "I am worried that if the Street View application is deployed in Canada, it may not be in compliance with our federal privacy regulations," she wrote in a letter.

On May 25, 2007, Google released Google Street View. This is a new feature of Google Maps that provides 360 degree panoramic street view in various places. On the day of release, this feature only contains 5 cities in the United States. It has expanded to thousands of places all over the world. In July 2009, Google began drawing down the university campus and its surrounding paths and paths. Due to privacy concerns about the unmodified nature of panoramic photos, Street View caused a lot of controversy after publication, but these views were only done on public roads. Since then, Google has blurred his face and license plate with automatic face recognition.