The Museum of London have produced what looks like quite a fascinating app for iPhones and Android phones.
According to the museum web site, the app takes many forms by combining historical information about an area with photos taken at various times all using the inbuilt GPS.
For example if you stand in Piccadilly Circus and turn the camera on, the iPhone / Android app will show you photos of what the area used to look like embedded on top of the current day scene.
For iPhones prior to the 3GS or Android phones that don’t support GPS, you can select points on the map for historical information about that location going back several hundred years.
There’s a page on the museum’s web site for the app, although I’m not exactly sure how you’re supposed to download it. At a guess if you point your phone at this Museum of London history app link then it’ll do the hard work (trying to confirm this with the Museum web manager).
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