This is the kind of thing that gives all my various geek organs simultaneous stiffies. The Times article with “then and now” features is not bad either. The really cool thing is that this is not a terribly complicated nor expensive project.
New York in the 1940s
Published
We were born in the wrong time.
This site has sucked every NY Librarian into wasting time at work. brilliant fun.
And again, a really simple project. Essentially they digitized one book and gave it a really spiffy interface using existing mapping tools. It shouldn’t have taken much money or time at all; it’s all about the content they chose and the presentation.