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Experience: Nice 1920 → 2026

Georeferencing Photos in the Service of History

Historical images from the IGN are full of resources.

This video shows an oblique view of Nice from 1920 (© IGN) overlaid with a current view (© Google Earth).

Compare the images

 

👨‍🍳 A bit of “cooking” was needed for this result!

  • Georeferencing the historical photo using the Veezer app to retrieve all the parameters of the shot (off-topic, but it works 🙂).
  • Generating the synthetic image on Google Earth with the same parameters.

 

A web app was developed by Pixmap Studio for the occasion to make image comparison easier, with zoom functionality and a swipe tool, all in a responsive interface usable on both desktop and mobile (using wasm).

 

IGN oblique images (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information) available on Remonter le Temps.