A fascinating window into the past that was rolled out as part of the ill-fated Sidewalk Labs smart city project in Toronto was later scrapped after …
in Toronto was later scrapped after Google's parent company, Alphabet, pulled out of the ambitious planned digital neighbourhood in 2020.
Years after the site was unceremoniously killed by the tech giant that created it, it has been resurrected thanks to the efforts of a local arts group.The OldTO map was first created by Sidewalk Labs senior software engineer Dan Vanderkam, with a design based on similar sites created to catalogue historical images of New York City and San Francisco.
However, the door was left open just a crack, as Sidewalk Labs made the source code of the website freely available for any takers.on its website that "we were sad to see OldTO.org vanish. One of our main projects is our Mapping our Memories endeavour. This photo map parallels this interest, and we are thrilled to be able to restore it."
All you have to do is click on one of the thousands of points on the map to pull up geocoded photos from these locations dating back over a century and a half. Want to know what your neighbourhood looked like before all the condos? Curious about how the city has spread outward over the generations? All these answers and more are just a few clicks away, and you may even learn some other unexpected history about the city along the way.
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