We had two successful and enjoyable georeferencing events earlier this month in New Orleans, thanks again to everyone who came out! About 20 people across the two Tuesday nights. Next time around, we’ll finally mix up the schedule a bit so more people can make it out.
Beyond georeferencing over 150 of pages of the Vol. 3, 1896 and Vol. 1, 1908 volumes (special shoutouts to Cacomixl, scanlan, and ngoddard!!) , we also had a few short presentations about research that folks have been working on recently.
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Upcoming Georeferencing Events in New Orleans Here in New Orleans we are looking forward to two georeferencing events coming right up! For the next two Tuesdays (May 5th & 12th) we’ll be partnering with HistoryForge to host georeference-a-thons at Second Line Brewing, just like we’ve done in the past; these will be our 7th and 8th events here!
These are fairly informal gatherings, with an intro and demo at 6:30, and then socializing and georeferencing to follow.
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Near the end of the pilot project the platform was starting to bog down, but I still had to use the tools myself to prepare the content for transfer to LSU Atlas (which has been the plan all along). So, I decided to take evasive action and incrementally (but significantly) restructure it. This took a while, and though I’m not 100% done with the work, most of the important stuff is done and the preparation/split, georeference, and trim operations are now back to working.
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Hello! This blog is a place to publish news and ideas about oldinsurancemaps.net, the platform at the heart of my masters thesis at LSU, “Creating a Public Space for Georeferencing Sanborn Maps”. I have long been a superfan of Sanborn maps, so the project is as much a love letter to them as anything else.
A little bit of context There were two original motivations for this endeavor:
Create a platform for collaborative map georeferencing Provide greater access to existing online map archives Neither of these ideas is new, but I was especially inspired by the idea of the archival commons and wanted to build something with elements of that model in mind—open access, public curation, and extensibility1 2.
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