On This Spot

On This Spot is rated 3 out of 5 in the category leisure. Read and write reviews about On This Spot. On This Spot began in 2013 as a history-focused travel blog developed by Andrew Farris. While visiting Japan, Andrew saw plaques at many sites with pictures showing how places looked in the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Taking photos from the same perspective and superimposing them over one another created a lasting impression and was a striking way to tie history to a physical place. Andrew went about creating then and now photography in a variety of other cities and historical sites he visited. While loving the experience of reading about history in the places it occurred, Andrew found it was a hassle to carry around books to find passages relating to the place he was standing on. Why wasn't there an app for that? Furthermore, why was there no app that combined history with then and now photography to create an immersive historical experience. In 2016, Andrew teamed up with his long-time friend and programmer Chris Reid, to build an app that would create that immersive historical experience. A year later, with the addition of Sean Edmunds, the three aim to expand this new type of digital storytelling to cities and towns across Canada.