The Santa Fe Digital History Project (SantaFe.live) is a free, open platform managed as a commons by the community. It offers a different approach. Given any photograph, old or new, we can figure out exactly where the camera was standing, which direction it was pointing, and what it was looking at on the landscape. Once we know that, every pixel in the image gets a real-world address: a latitude, longitude, and altitude on the hills, walls, and streets of Santa Fe.

This project is being developed with his team at Santa Fe native companies Redfish Group and SimTable, in collaboration with Peter Weiss, local historian and tour guide, whose deep knowledge of Santa Fe's layered past anchors the technology in the stories that matter.The platform is community-powered. Contributors decide what is public, what stays within a family group, and what remains entirely private. The devices we already carry, our phones and laptops, can serve as the hosts. We do not need to centralize our memories on the cloud.

This talk will demonstrate how the technology works, show early examples, and invite the Historic Santa Fe Foundation community to help build this living record together.