I remember going online in 2002 and finding aerial shots of my small home town.
They were probably from the 70s but I'd never seen anything like it so it was awesome.

Resolution was probably half as blurry as the current Google Earth pics.

I like how they don't attempt to match up the old London photos with the identical point of view from Google Earth, which would take a 12-year-old about four minutes to do.

I use this site for project research all the time

historicaerials.com

Actually, that would just be an aerial photo.

Wut? Google didn't invent that shiat.

I feel shocked.

Came to complain about the lack of effort to scale and rotate modern GIS data to match the historical photos, see I'm not needed here.

Cool. I love old European photography.

/Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.

Surprised at how similar everything looks. Also, thanks error 303 for the uber awesome link. Where I live now in Tampa was apparently forest in 1982, USF was a hell of a lot smaller then too.

So...London hasn't changed much in 100 years?

/Apart from the big Ferris wheel

The fact that so many soccer teams play in pretty much the exact same spot as they did 100 years ago is mind-boggling. Here in the US, if a team wants a larger stadium, they simply build a new one. Even if it's right next door to the old one and has the same name (as is the case in my hometown of St. Louis) it's never the same stadium. I suppose it's easier to enlarge a single stand adjacent to a soccer pitch as needed, but it's still cool to think that people have been going to see Chelsea play right there for over one hundred years. Though I guess if they built a new stadium the way many American teams do--in a different area of the same metro area--you'd end up with a team named "Chelsea" not playing anywhere near the area bearing its name.

Virtuoso80: So...London hasn't changed much in 100 years?

/Apart from the big Ferris wheel

Not up west, where these photos were taken. East London has changed dramatically though. A mixture of the docks closing and the Blitz saw to that.

0Icky0: I like how they don't attempt to match up the old London photos with the identical point of view from Google Earth, which would take a 12-year-old about four minutes to do.



THANK YOU!

If it's your job to create news articles, then at least do a good job of it.

madden101: The fact that so many soccer teams play in pretty much the exact same spot as they did 100 years ago is mind-boggling. Here in the US, if a team wants a larger stadium, they simply build a new one. Even if it's right next door to the old one and has the same name (as is the case in my hometown of St. Louis) it's never the same stadium. I suppose it's easier to enlarge a single stand adjacent to a soccer pitch as needed, but it's still cool to think that people have been going to see Chelsea play right there for over one hundred years. Though I guess if they built a new stadium the way many American teams do--in a different area of the same metro area--you'd end up with a team named "Chelsea" not playing anywhere near the area bearing its name.

Ummmm that clearly is a different stadium. It's just in almost the exact same spot and has the same name. The caption even says it's a new stadium. And as for baseball stadiums, Fenway Park's 100th anniversary in next season, and Wrigley Field's is in 2014.

The Lone Talbot: madden101: The fact that so many soccer teams play in pretty much the exact same spot as they did 100 years ago is mind-boggling. Here in the US, if a team wants a larger stadium, they simply build a new one. Even if it's right next door to the old one and has the same name (as is the case in my hometown of St. Louis) it's never the same stadium. I suppose it's easier to enlarge a single stand adjacent to a soccer pitch as needed, but it's still cool to think that people have been going to see Chelsea play right there for over one hundred years. Though I guess if they built a new stadium the way many American teams do--in a different area of the same metro area--you'd end up with a team named "Chelsea" not playing anywhere near the area bearing its name.

Ummmm that clearly is a different stadium. It's just in almost the exact same spot and has the same name. The caption even says it's a new stadium. And as for baseball stadiums, Fenway Park's 100th anniversary in next season, and Wrigley Field's is in 2014.

I was gonna say the same thing. Fenway, Wrigley, Dodger Stadium, Soldier Field, the Rose Bowl, the Colussiem, half of college football stadiums are older than half of the stadiums in the Premier League.

Would it have killed them to take the time to use Google Earth to get the modern image to be the same position and width?