The South Dublin County Time Machine Launches
Last evening, as part of the innovation dublin festival, South Dublin Innovates in conjunction with the South Dublin Libraries launched the South Dublin County Time Machine (also known as the historical mapping project). Our previous blog entry refers.
You can now access this on-line project which uses the innovation of modern GIS technology with both out of copyright and licensed mapping, to allow the individual to trace back the history of the local area.
The Time Machine’s web address is http://gis.sdublincoco.ie/historical_mapping/
If this kind of stuff grabs your attention then you may also be interested in the Mannahatta Project which starts at a very similar point to the South Dublin Time Machine in merging the old and the new. Maps from yesteryear which showed Manhattan, New York from 1609 have been analysed along with the environs, habitats, flora and fauna, etc.. and merged with current day mapping and geo-spatial data, to produce fascinating vistas of Manhatten in the past, the present, and with some additional modelling, the future.
We came in contact with this project through the TED networks which enabled some of innovation weeks video content during the week’s activities. Below, from TED is Eric Sanderson who pictures New York - before the City.
This is a breathtaking project - another time machine as it were. In this case, a time machine which goes forward as well as back.
