Suggesting Interesting Dates to Explore Images in a Historical Imagery Database

摘要

A computer-implemented method, system and computer-readable medium for suggesting a date to display a historical image, is provided. A plurality of tiles corresponding to a geographic area are identified. Some or all of the geographic area can be displayed to a user. For each tile, a list of dates is identified, each date in the list associated with a historical image geolocated at a geolocation of each tile on a particular date. From the list of dates associated with each tile, an oldest date is identified. The oldest date from each list of dates associated with each tile is compiled into a suggested date list. From the suggested date list, a date is selected as the suggested date, that accounts for the age of available historical images and the availability of historical images having the suggested date within the image displayed to the user.