Title
Image Maps: Exploring Urban History through Digital Photography
Abstract
This paper describes an integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and multimedia technologies to create opportunities for people to explore the history of their cities. We have augmented a digital camera with a global positioning system (GPS) and a digital compass to record its position and orientation when ordinary photographs are taken. The metadata are used to retrieve and present historical images of the photographed locations to photographers. Another set of tools allows students to annotate and compare these historical images to develop explanations of how and why their communities have changed over time. We describe the hardware and software architectures and learning outcomes that we expect to see in classroom use.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
Digital Cities
geographic information system,ordinary photograph,classroom use,present historical image,digital camera,historical image,digital compass,multimedia technology,photographed location,global positioning system,digital photography,exploring urban history,image maps
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
1765
0302-9743
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-67265-6
3
0.72
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brian K. Smith130341.07
Erik Blankinship2153.27
Alfred Ashford, III361.34
michael sean baker461.34
Timothy Hirzel5454.44