Last week, O'Reilly's Radar posted an interesting account of a project to scan historic photos of Philadelphia and link them to Google Maps.  Hence, the reader can see the pic and then relate it to the photo's original location.  Most newspapers have photo archives.  Many of these shots are not just of people, but events which have a geographic location.  It might be difficult to tie a picture with a specific location, but  some might be possible.  So why don't newspapers start scanning those photos and put them on the paper's web site, a la "Mapping Philly"?  Doing so builds ...   more »