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http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s-t-gill-adelaide_509641#14/-34.9200/138.6162

Systems developer David Coombe has created a “street view” map of Adelaide in the 1840s by pinning digital images of Samuel Thomas Gill paintings onto historical maps of the city.

“He painted many Adelaide street scenes and there’s a lot of detail — much of it in the background,” Coombe says. “The pictures were historical and specific and accurate.”

(Thanks, Jason.)

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