Oh thank you very much for this tip! I will have to see if I can find a 2nd hand copy somewhere — Grand Canyon was one of the most memorable & overwhelming places I've ever been too (back in the '90s)...
Meanwhile, @mtchl pointed me to another very closely related Canadian project (thank you very much that too! 🙏):
https://post.lurk.org/@mtchl/116864190517879316
Here's also another related interesting Swiss site I found last night, a crowdsourced project to build a collection of 3D geolocalized archive images:
https://smapshot.heig-vd.ch/
Example (Grindelwald):
https://smapshot.heig-vd.ch/visit/265094
(Ps. I was sure that this isn't a super unique idea [ofc also doesn't have to be], but it's again a lesson to do more research about existence of similar projects first... 🙃)
Karsten Schmidt
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2026-07-05 08:27:25 UTC
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