BANGKOK | Mon Sep 12, 2011 5: 57 a.m. EDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - for people who have stood as a monument or analyzed a landscape - the great wall of China, for example, or the Grand Canyon of United States - and wondered how seemed to 100 or more years, there is now an application for you.

Historypin, iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories of locations by having people to unearth and digitize old photographs and other media sites, along with personal memories of the past.

Combined with memories and modern images, the application creates a history of a place for people to enjoy - a kind of "machine of the time in the Pocket", say supporters.

"It's people who come together to create a web site of human history," said Nick Stanhope, Executive Director of which are what we do, an organization without profit United Kingdom responsible for the Historypin project-based.

The application uses GPS to find the content that has been added within a certain proximity. Users can also browse the content that was loaded in any location on the map. The results can be filtered by date, ranging from the 1840s (the time of the first photographs) leading up to the present day.

The application also includes an augmented reality camera historical images from overlapping in the database of the current panorama. More than 55,000 photos and stories have been pinned the map since that Web site and the application were introduced.

A 1938 photo shows a car being towed in Newfoundland, Placentia intestinal Canada by two small wooden boats, a method which was withdrawn when a bridge was built to provide a more efficient route.

Another since the 1920s shows a mother and daughter in Minnesota enjoying a laugh in front of a local school and its now defunct bell and Tower.

Users can create or upload content using the app. comments can add to existing media, helping to construct which the organisation hopes will become a tapestry of historical data.

"Do not make any judgements about what is and is not history," Stanhope said. "But there are judgments about things like marketing spam or unrecognizable content."

With the ubiquity of digital content today, refers to some users Historypin could become a terrestrial dumping for social photos which might be a better fit for a Facebook album.

"Obviously a boy fall outside a Manhattan bar in September 2011 is not interesting in itself," said Stanhope.

"But when you see what they have done people in that place during the past 200 years, it is interesting - and eventually becomes more interesting." "If you look at people socialise or have a party for 100 years, suddenly it's fascinating.

The app, which has received more than 250,000 downloads, has faced some complaints of speed and stability since its launch. Stanhope said that the organization is providing updates every few weeks to solve the problems.

New tools that came out in January are expected to significantly increase the amount of content in the database, such as partnerships in the works with U.S. museums.

Stanhope said that future updates includes functions to increase the accuracy and the amount of detail attributed to the content and the introduction of a classification system.

The application is available worldwide in the App store (here) and Android Marketplace (here).

Content can also be explored via the project website.

(Edited by Paul Casciato)

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