If you’ve fantasized about time travel as you travel, there’s a new tool for you: a lash-up of Google Maps with a detailed website built by a Norwegian historian.
Ragnhild Hutchison’s website project, Port of Oslo 1798, uses a wide variety of images and old maps to create a sense of the port’s economic boom in the late 1700s. She told ScienceNordic that “The idea is that you can physically stand somewhere at the Port of Oslo, pick up your phone, open our map and travel back to 1798.”
The website, which is in test version and in Norwegian, shows the old map superimposed on the new one, with embedded links that allow visitors to pop up images of what the area looked like at the time, as well as seeing changes in coastline and more.
