{"id":12489,"date":"2012-07-20T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:09:27","slug":"vancouver-then-and-now-available-on-the-apple-app-store-and-the-google-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/vancouver-then-and-now-available-on-the-apple-app-store-and-the-google-play-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver, Then and Now &#8211; available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12490\" title=\"Powell Street - Then\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Powell-Street-Then-600x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Powell-Street-Then-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Powell-Street-Then.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Available as of July 19th, the app <strong>Vancouver, Then and Now<\/strong> offers a journey back in time in the city of Vancouver to iPhone and Android phone users. It allows mobile users to easily compare more than 150 old photographs from the city to recent ones, taken with the exact same shot angle. After the success of several \u2018<em>Then and Now<\/em>\u2019 apps including Paris and Montreal, Vancouver visitors and locals can now too travel back in time!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just like for the other cities\u2019 app, the user first defines a notification range from the home screen which then allows him to be automatically notified when getting close to an available \u201cthen and now\u201d place. Thanks to the \u00ab Find \u00bb tab, the user can also locate the closest places, using the list, map or augmented reality views. \u00a0He can as well look directly for a specific place by using the search tool.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the main features for each \u201cthen and now\u201d place allows to superpose the old photograph to the real view, using augmented reality. And it\u2019s not only beautiful photographs, as for each place the user gets a brief historical comment or anecdote to learn more about the place\u2019s evolution. The app content will evolve, as new spots will be added regularly to complete the app\u2019s database.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Vancouver is a city that has changed a lot, and keeps evolving. The idea behind the Then and Now comparisons is to capture these changes to make people aware of Vancouver\u2019s heritage. \u00a0And it\u2019s not only about the Downtown area: what\u2019s great about this app is that you could be almost anywhere in the city and still have some then and now photos nearby&#8221; said Jeremy Hood, the creator of the app content who partnered with the MyCityBefore to create the app.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Vancouver, Then and Now<\/strong> is now available for 1.99 $ CAD in Canada and is priced accordingly in other regions. The app is available world-wide, in English, on the Apple AppStore and the Google Play Store. Other apps are under construction, the next one being for the city of Toronto.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycitybefore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mycitybefore.com<\/a>\u00a0for more <strong>Vancouver, Then and Now<\/strong> information, including videos and screenshots of the app.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>***<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Available as of July 19th, the app Vancouver, Then and Now offers a journey back in time in the city of Vancouver to iPhone and Android phone users. It allows mobile users to easily compare more than 150 old photographs from the city to recent ones, taken with the exact same shot angle. After<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/vancouver-then-and-now-available-on-the-apple-app-store-and-the-google-play-store\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Vancouver, Then and Now &#8211; available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11233],"tags":[9362,9360,7984,792,1097,9361,23,5090,9366,475,9363,565,9364,137,1210,214,9365],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-android","tag-apple-app-store","tag-cad","tag-canada","tag-google","tag-google-play-store","tag-historical","tag-iphone","tag-jeremy-hood","tag-montreal","tag-mycitybefore","tag-paris","tag-search-tool","tag-toronto","tag-usd","tag-vancouver-2","tag-www-mycitybefore-com"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vancouver, Then and Now - available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store  - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/vancouver-then-and-now-available-on-the-apple-app-store-and-the-google-play-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vancouver, Then and Now - available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store  - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Available as of July 19th, the app Vancouver, Then and Now offers a journey back in time in the city of Vancouver to iPhone and Android phone users. 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