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Subject: Re: Re: Old Roads project (Virginia)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:47:58 -0600 (CST)
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Just an FYI - Vermont passed legislation in 2006 that gave cities and
towns to identify old public roads and keep them as public ways. Here
are a few links to a Google search" old roads in vermont. You might
find information here on what VT did to record these roads.
Jim
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/us/11roads.html
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2009/03/04/vermonters_search_for_roads_of_yore/
http://www.vtroads.com/
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From: "Karen Myers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:19:43 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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in "knowledge management" design and technologies, but I'm out of
date in the mapping domain and not plugged in to any of the academic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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540-554-8334 (home)
408-242-5580 (cell)
408-904-4887 (efax)
http://www.KarenLMyers.org/
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