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Subject: Re: US historical transportation GIS?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:34:47 -0400
From: Jeff Essic <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark,
Are you familiar with the Trading Path organization in Hillsborough?
http://www.tradingpath.org
Tom Magnuson there uses GIS for a lot of his mapping and probably has
the Great Wagon Road, since they are planning to work up some type of
Heritage Tourism project with it.
Jeff
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Jeff Essic, Data Services Librarian
North Carolina State University
D.H. Hill Library, Research & Info. Services Dept.
Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
(919) 515-5698
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: US historical transportation GIS?
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:33:48 -0400
> From: Mark A. Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear Maps-L:
>
> A prof here is interested in producing some maps (page-size) that
> include historical transportation routes in the US mid-Atlantic states
> from the late 18th century to about the Civil War. He's specifically
> interested in the "Great Wagon Road" that ran from central PA down
> through the Shenandoah Valley into western VA and NC. Also, the
> pre-Civil War railroads in that region. Finally, cities of importance
> at that time.
>
> It's now easy to find historical country boundaries (eg., NHGIS) in
> shapefiles. The wagon road could be drawn by hand, but it would be nice
> to have something already available. We could take a modern layer of
> RR's and create a layer from just those that the prof is interested in,
> but there are some lines that were around back then that have since been
> abandoned and won't show up in modern layers. Once again, could just
> draw. I don't see any problem with just creating a layer of
> cities/towns from a modern layer, since I don't think any disappeared.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> thanks,
> Mark
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