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Soon, Pokemon Go might not be the only app getting people off their couches and onto the streets of Edmonton.

In July, two Vancouver-based developers launched On This Spot, an interactive, history tour app that allows users to see then-and-now photos of historical landmarks and go on curated historical walking tours.

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The recent Pokemon Go craze has proven that there’s a desire to use technology to interact with our surroundings in exciting new ways and the app allows people to do that with history, says Andrew Farris, co-creator of the app.

“I’ve always been deeply fascinated about history,” Farris said, adding he hopes to “find ways to share that love of history with people” through the app.

The idea stemmed from his blog, which features then-and-now photographs from around the world. He partnered with Chris Reid, an app developer he met at university, to start work on the app about four months ago.

Since its Vancouver-only release July 24, the app has been downloaded 700 times and has 600 points of historical reference in that city, Farris said.

It allows people to see “history through the eyes of people in the past,” he said, adding that photographs are sourced from archives, making it a modern conduit between archives and the public.