Mashups Tag Search: history

MSNBC has an interative map highlighting points of interest along parade route to the White House where he will take the oath of office. Has layers of overlaid data that can be toggled on and off. 

Black Swan lets you explore history from a whole new perspective. It allows users to augment over 400 statistical time series (each containing annual data items for as many as 200 countries over the last 200 years) to find out how different socioeconomic developments correlate with certain historical events. Once you have detected a link between a statistical outlier and an event, Black Swan can indicate similar patterns. 

The CNN iReports Map, set on the Barack Obama inauguration parade route, allows readers to submit their own stories and reports from the event. 

Overlays historical aerial photographs of Detroit over current imagery to demonstrate change over time. The site features aerial imagery from 1949, 52, 56, 61, 76, 81, 97, 2005 and 06. 

Multple ways of looking at maps, Images, Google Earth KML files for about 1,500 early gothic sites in Northern France, using Google Earth, Google, Wikipedia, Flickr, Clusty, Mapquest. The original data comes from the work of Dr. John James. 

A website that defines who has influenced who between people. Built using the Freebase API. 

Online community whose aim is to show in pictures how the world has changed through time. In essence it is an archive of old photographs and pictures tagged by time and location on a Google Map. 

Island Eye has been created to achieve a focal island portal specializing in the History and Tourism of the Isle of Wight. It also helps support Island businesses and voluntary sectors. 

Map that traces the life of US Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden.  

A browser for the Web of the past. Go back in time and rediscover how sites looked years ago. See how fast information evolves in wikis. Uses BOSS, archive.org (URL patterns as an API), and the MediaWiki API.