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Sometimes I go past an old looking building or see some traces of old signage on a store and wonder what they used to be, especially when those traces are hard to read or obscured.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)

This should be a Google maps feature, how cool would that be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Doesn't Maps or Google Earth have a time-line for places now? Thought it started 4 or 5 years ago, so it's not everywhere yet.

Though I think that's just fairly recent images and such. Maybe it permits us submitting really old info/photos?

You could probably set this up on a shared map, getting people to help/contribute/not be a troll would be the challenge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yep, when in street view you can look at old street views. It'll be cool in 20 years when the changes will be more apparent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On Google earth pro you can also look at older versions of the satellite maps, which is also very cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
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