Changing face of Doha captured in region’s first interactive online map

How big was Doha in 1947? What did my street look like in the 1950s, and did it even exist? How different was the Corniche in the 1960s?

Finding the answers to these questions became easier this week after researchers in Qatar launched a new, interactive map of Doha.

The online tool allows users to travel back in time and compare life in the capital city over the last eight decades to the present day.

The Doha Online Historical Atlas (DOHA) is the first in the Middle East to use state-of-the-art technology to create an intuitive, multi-media map of Qatar’s capital, and has been put together by a team from the University College of London Qatar (UCL Qatar).

The map, which has been launched as a beta version, currently includes dozens of historical items, such as video footage from the 1960s showing city landmarks, 60 old photographs of places and people over the decades and 20 different aerial images.

While the majority of the material is from the 1940s-60s, there are also photographs dating back to the beginning of the century.

Original article by Lesley Walker

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Changing face of Doha captured in region’s first interactive online map