In a moment of serendipity, while I was placing our Commons images on the Flickr map yesterday, I got a note from Paul Hagon, telling me he had made a Flickr /Google Street View mash-up with our Flickr Commons images.
Using the mash-up, you can see 'then and now' views of the locations recorded in the photos:
Paul gave me a very helpful tip to use GetLatLon.com to get the exact coordinates for locations (the resolution on the Flickr map for New Zealand is not great, so pasting this panorama of the intersection of High St, Lichfield St and Manchester St in Christchurch into exactly the right spot to work properly in the mashup was nigh-on impossible). While some of the images that are appearing on the mashup aren't producing good matches (ummm... gannets at Cape Kidnappers? inside the Botanical Gardens in Dunedin? not great for street views ...) some are working rather beautifully. Don't forget to check out the different page views when you're using the mashup - the images are distributed over a number of maps.
Paul has also made similar mashups for the State Library of NSW and Powerhouse Museum's Commons images. You can read about the genesis of the mashup on his blog.
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