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Re: Old Roads project (Virginia)
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I don't know if this would be of any help, but UNLV has completed a digital maps project: Southern Nevada and Las Vegas History in Maps.

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/maps/

I don't think any layering was involved, just scanning and documenting the historical maps. You could look at what UNLV Libraries did, and if there is anything of interest,
I could put you in touch with our Digital projects people.

Debbi

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Subject: Old Roads project (Virginia)




Hi, all.



As a newbie to the list, I'm hoping you folks might be able to guide me.



I am involved (as the helpful local computer geek) in enabling some amateur county historical society folks to create a database of old colonial and later roads, with associated information, in Clarke County, VA (the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley).



Their minimum goal is simply to get, in some computerized form, the traces-on-the-ground info and supporting materials. That's straightforward. My goal, on the other hand, is to create a framework for holding this information as a layer of data which can be superimposed over modern landform maps and modern road maps, and which is ideally extensible to adjacent counties someday.



Before I start asking technical questions about current recommended mapping programs and the state of current databases, I have a more fundamental question: is there any sort of evolved standard for mapping historical US roads or pathways today, perhaps as some existing academic "best practice" project? I can invent this from scratch but I would much rather plug into whatever work may be going on already. Or is it too early, and there are nothing but isolated heterogeneous data structures being built? (I have older experience in "knowledge management" design and technologies, but I'm out of date in the mapping domain and not plugged in to any of the academic channels).



For that matter, are there any grad students out there who might find it interesting to collaborate on something like this?



Thanks in advance for any direction you can give me - much appreciated!



Regards,



Karen Myers



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