Posts by Bert Spaan

Get NYPL Digital Collections Tab for Your Browser

 by Bert Spaan
August 31, 2017
NYPL's new browser extension shows a curated image of New York City every time you open a new tab. Know where in New York City the photo was taken? With just a few clicks, you can geotag the image and help enhance NYPL's collections.
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Surveyor Geotagging Tool Puts NYPL Photos on the Map

 by Bert Spaan
July 7, 2017
We're releasing Surveyor with one goal in mind: to make it easier to find NYPL's digitized photos by the location where they were taken.
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The NYC Space/Time Directory: Building the Future of NYC’s Past

 by Bert Spaan
April 7, 2017
Two years ago, we had a crazy idea: what if we could make the maps of New York City’s past work like the maps of today?
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