Rob Williams
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RE: New Historical Map Page

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...

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RE: New Historical Map Page

If anyone is interested, I added the 1972 map this morning.

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RE: New Historical Map Page

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...

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I added the 1931 maps last night.

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RE: New Historical Map Page

The 1946 map tiles have been uploaded and appear to be working now.

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RE: New Historical Map Page

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...

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RE: New Historical Map Page

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 ...

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RE: New Historical Map Page

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...

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RE: 506/508/509 and the old Abbott Trail

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...

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RE: New Historical Map Page

Yea, it would be, but it wouldn't be as cool (or as useful). I'll get it figured out eventually....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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