EPFL photo-mapping project reveals 1960s Switzerland - The Local
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Researchers at Lausanne technology institute EPFL are calling for the public’s help to geo-locate archive photos of Switzerland in the 1960s.
The project is based on a set of 35,000 aerial photos of Switzerland taken by photography business Perrochet Pleinciel in the 1960s, originally intended to be made into postcards.
Fifty years later EPFL has created a website called Smapshot which aims to compare these archive photos with present-day Switzerland to show how the country has changed over the years.
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