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Berlin Time Machine

April 2nd, 02008 by Alexander Rose

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.

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  1. Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » Mapping Through Time Says:

    Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am

    [...] story that just seems to belong with it. So here am I reading Felix Gilman’s Thunderer, and here are the Long Now folks talking about a project at UCLA that produces computerized maps that not [...]

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