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From: "Jeff Essic" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:41:50 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Old Roads project (Virginia)
Karen,
You should get in touch with Tom Magnuson, who runs the Trading Path
Assoc. - http://tradingpath.org/. He's an expert at reading clues on
the landscape, using maps, and putting together whatever he can find
to map old Native American and colonial trading routes, historic
structures, and other vestiges of the past. His primary area of focus
is the North Carolina Piedmont area. He's also become pretty adept at
using various GIS tools, LiDAR, and anything that will help him whilst
operating on a shoestring budget.
I also recall that there was a meeting in 2008 or 2009 in Charlotte NC
attended by other like-minded folks, which Tom blogged about. He
mentioned that an ESRI staffer attended and was interested in getting
more involved in developing database standards, so be sure to ask him
about that.
Best Regards,
Jeff Essic
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Jeff Essic, Geospatial Data Services Librarian
North Carolina State University
D.H. Hill Library, Research & Information Services
Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis
(919) 515-5698
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> As a newbie to the list, I'm hoping you folks might be able to guide me.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> For that matter, are there any grad students out there who might find it interesting to collaborate on something like this?
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> Thanks in advance for any direction you can give me - much appreciated!
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