Work on the vintage railroad images and the Google Map project is slowly progressing. Managed to insert an overlay of the state railroad network (c. 1993) for the upper layers of the map. Now need to figure out how to go back to color code the line segments by railroad company. Other items on the agenda are to create a sidebar list of locations, to create color coded icons and perhaps to work out a filtering method to allow selection by railroad company. Once all this is worked out will get back to filling in all the missing information for all the images.
Have also completed the initial work on another project that maps out the locations of historic school insurance photographs available online from the SC state archives. Having a major problem matching photographs with locations. so far have able to match about a third of the over 2600 photographs with a definite map location. Progress made so far in this endeavor can be found here. Be sure to read the Details page to find out what this is all about. As envisioned the final product will allow selection of school photographs by county. Due to the amount of work that will be require to obtain a good map location many of the photographs of schools located in urban areas will most likely not be included in this project. Expect to have roughtly 1000, mostly rural, school photographs mapped out.
Recently learned of a new method to create a time line web application using MIT's Simile Timeline API. Far less complex than the Google Map API. Decided to create a timeline of Civil War events that occurred in the old Beaufort District. Progress made so far can be seen here. Would eventually like to create a Google Earth layer using the timeline feature with a historic map overlay and possibly a similar map version using the Google Map API as well. A SC railroad history timeline Is under consideration once all of the above are completed.
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