HEIR - Historic Environment Image Resource 4+
Keepthinking Limited
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
HEIR - the Historic Environment Image Resource
Join us as we research changes in our environment and landscape from old glass plate and lantern slide photographs. Heir is an important new resource for tracking environmental and climate change, understanding human impact on the planet, identifying endangered landscapes and endangered archaeology, reconstructing lost buildings and habitats, and so much more. Find out more at www.heirtagger.ox.ac.uk/about/about-us
Then and now – join the hunt for the past. What did the world look like through a camera 100 years ago? What does it look like today?
There are thousands of historic images for you to explore from the HEIR collection. Use this app to call up old images near you. Find the sites, re-photograph them and share your discoveries with researchers worldwide.
With the free HEIR app you can:
• Access 10,000s of historic images
• Use a special overlay feature to help you re-photograph
• Be part of a worldwide community tracking environmental and heritage change
• Contribute to a worldwide database of information about landscape change
The past is on your doorstep – start your travels now!
HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource) is funded by The Reva and David Logan Foundation and the University of Oxford.
Visit www.heirtagger.ox.ac.uk find out more.
What’s New
Version 2
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- New distance filter (km)
- Landscape mode when taking a photo
- New search features ( "object" - quotes for literal search and #123 - hash for resource id search)
- Zooniverse oAuth secure authentication for login and registering
Ratings and Reviews
Good idea let down by shoddy implementation
If it worked, this would be brilliant. A tool to encourage you to take a modern photograph overlaid on a vintage photograph, so you can see the changes. However, there are problems:
1. The app crashes. A lot. Not just sometimes, but nearly every time you try to download a photo from the database.
2. The database of old photos is thin. There is just one inside 10km from my home, and that was taken from an aircraft, so is difficult to replicate.
3. No problem, I'll upload some old photos from my family album - except there appears to be no facility to do this. Why not? I accept that establishing copyright might be an issue, but that can certainly be overcome.
4. OK, you don't want me to contribute any of my old photographs, but at least I can use the tool to take a modern photo over a photo held locally on my device - except there seems to be no facility to do this either. What?
All in all, a waste of electrons.
Great app and great pictures!
This is s great app, hopefully will have more picture in the near future!
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Information
- Provider
- Keepthinking Limited
- Size
- 31.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 University of Oxford
- Price
- Free