Last seen: Jun 21, 2025
If you are a map junkie, it can be quite addictive. I'm processing the 1916 and 1952 maps right now. They take several hours to create all the tiles...
If anyone is interested, I added the 1972 map this morning.
Thanks for letting me know. I don't know how many of these maps I will geo-reference and tile. It is very time consuming - I only want to do the one...
I added the 1931 maps last night.
The 1946 map tiles have been uploaded and appear to be working now.
I think I've pretty much finished the logic for the page itself. I've rearranged things a bit, so that old link doesn't work anymore. Here is a link...
Donovan said Would there be a way to click on and drag the overlay once we were on a focused area to line up known features? Unfortunately, no-or ...
Thanks, Bryon. I thought I had corrected for the datum (or at least close enough), by using a tool like this that Paul had referred me to: It sh...
Thanks for posting this trip report, Paul. Very interesting stuff. I'll have to go check out the old phone line down there one of these days. I had...
Yea, it would be, but it wouldn't be as cool (or as useful). I'll get it figured out eventually....
All I can tell you it is has to do with some very complicated math (there is a LOT of math used in maps). I do know that the farther west you get, th...
I still have to figure out how to correct the "shift" in the overlay - it has to do with the map datums used on the old maps compared to today. You s...
I have been experimenting with some tools to create online maps from the new historical map scans. I'm still experimenting, but I thought I would pos...
I spent some time this morning updating the maps page and the "old" historical maps page to reflect the new scanned maps (instead of referring to the ...