Berlin Time Machine

April 2nd, 02008 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Stewart Brand sent in this spiffy UCLA project that uses historical interactive maps of Berlin through time. This is part of a larger trend I have seen from many governments and municipalities to use modern geographical information systems (GIS) to not only create maps of what is there, but to add the time element to create a much deeper now.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 02008 at 9:29 am and is filed under Long Term Thinking, Technology, The Big Here.

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