The VTM photo-hunt is on (at least in the Bay Area)
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 2:31PM I am reinvigorating the mission to re-shoot the VTM photos. At least in the Bay Area. This was prompted by the recent Berkleyan article about the new UC reserve in Santa Clara County ("preserves oak-woodland ecosystem at urban/wildland interface"). I thought "I wonder if there are any pictures of the area from the VTM collection?" and had a search this weekend. Sure enough, there are some nice ones. So I've geo-located a few from around the bay to get us started. Any ideas on: automating the process; making an easy site to upload paired photos; an easy way to link Township/Range queries into gmaps... Any volunteers to do Santa Cruz County? Lots of great pics there. And check out the local logging history documented in the photos of the New Almaden quad.
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I'm totally down. I am, of course, biased toward Flickr, so I would say put them all up on Flickr with as much geo data as we can, give each photo a unique identifying tag like "vtm:photos:123456," and then create a group with the instructions that people should try and find these places, retake the photos, and then tag their own, modern photos with the same identifier. So let's say we upload a photo from Albany Hill and give it the tag "vtm:photos:9876". Then some intrepid Flickr user (like, say, me) goes to Albany Hill, takes a photo from the same perspective, maps it, and tags his photo "vtm:photos:9876". Then when you go to http://flickr.com/photos/tags/vtm:photos:9876, you'd see all the photos people have taken in attempt to reshoot the original.