I’m still digesting the surplus of ideas, information, and stimuli that came through as overload during last week’s AAG conference in NYC. One of the tracks that I’d have hoped to get to (if I could clone myself, and have the double arrive pre-loaded with more energy) was held at the New York Public Library, focusing on the use of historical maps and data in a number of ways. I did have friends at those sessions, however, and one of them – Chris Gist from UVA- came to dinner one night full of enthusiasm for the plans around oldmapsonline.org. I suppose such a wonderful level of contributed sharing was inevitable in today’s world of VGI. Bring on the temporal/spatial change studies!
NYPL is also known for their innovative use of open-source tools to crowd source the georeferencing of their own collection of maps and images.
diana maps 