The visual presentation of the content enables users to navigate with ease and keep track of their tasks. The blue colour scheme represents the sky, since the app deals with aerial photography. The large panels and UI elements provide a comfortable experience on both mobile and desktop. The application is designed to be vibrant and fun while remaining highly accessible.

Project Goals

The National Library has 3 million aerial photographs that needs placing on the map. Goal was to crowdsource project where volunteers help geolocate historical aerial photographs by placing them on digital maps. Such App has to be gamified to encourage responsible participation accessible from mobile to desktop.  

The aerial photographs belong to 2 categories

Aerial photographs that do not have a location on the map yet
Here we have used information from the digitization to give an approximate location (e.g. municipality).
Aerial photographs that someone has attached to the map represented by a marker
A user has attached a point in the aerial photograph to the map, and you can find it again by navigating the map.
As the aerial photographs are digitized, you will find aerial photos from the entire country and from different time periods. To be able to contribute to geolocating aerial photos yourself, you must log in with ID-porten and accept the terms of use. Logged-in users can compete with each other to place as many aerial photos as possible on the map.
All place names are taken from the Central Place Name Registry Kartverket

Mobile and desktop interface for various user task