jonnysmillie
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5 years ago Perhaps could tap into Lancaster Past and Present?
Open chrisarridge opened 5 years ago
jonnysmillie
commented
5 years ago Perhaps could tap into Lancaster Past and Present?
Inspired by a variety of things people said at the last meet... Possibly we could develop a website and/or app for people to discover their city. The system could contain geotagged historical images, allow people to record an oral history via submitting text, and also contribute images showing how things have changed. It might evolve into a valuable tool to enable tourism.
Could envisage splitting into several layers/levels. Firstly developing a web platform that allow us to collect images, oral histories, provides a search ability. Might be able to connect in with Lancaster city museum images/paintings and the Red Rose collections. This might be achievable in a weekend hack. Second level could be to build an app that connects with the web platform and allows the user to explore what's around them. Again, basic functionality might be achievable in a weekend hack.
Additional bits might be to add the ability to build walking tours of Lancaster that use the database, or gamify it to allow users to collect points for "discovering" things and for contributing content. We might even add some AR capability to the app so that historical photos/images could be overlaid onto the camera view, immersing the user in what was at their location at different points in history (e.g., standing on Skerton Bridge and being able to overlay a photo of Green Ayre.