I will be presenting (virtually) to the Geography & GIScience department at the University of Illinois tomorrow, as part of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab monthly speaker series. I'm really looking forward to this--it will largely be an introduction and summary of OldInsuranceMaps.net, but I also plan to highlight a bit of the work that the students at University of Richmond have been doing recently. And, anyone can join via Zoom! 12pm Central Time, 40-45 minutes.
More info here: https://healthyregions.org/2023/10/25/october-speaker-series-creating-oldinsurancemaps-net/
Register here: https://go.illinois.edu/herop-series-adam
Working with the HistoryForge team we have gotten the mosaicked New Orleans 1895, vol. 1 edition into their web map interface! You can find it in the map overlays at https://sela.historyforge.net/forge. (Also admire the Robinson Atlas and other layers Elizabeth has added while you are there!) Some may recall this edition was the focus of our first georeference-a-thon this past summer. Happy to see it in use outside of OldInsuranceMaps.net! The best thing about this integration is that it spurred some development on the HF platform, so now any maps/mosaics from OldInsuranceMaps.net can be pulled directly in. No need to move files, etc. I have a feeling there will be more HF collaboration in the future!
On the tech side, I'd like to acknowledge Github user mindless-bureaucrat (and of course endless appreciation for Vincent Sarago) who added a WMS endpoint to TiTiler early this year. When they did, I knew it would be useful to us sooner or later, and HistoryForge is a wonderful first use. Now any sheets or mosaics from OldInsuranceMaps.net are available through this standard (get in touch if using layers that way interests you!).
Not too many other "big news" items to report at the moment, but everyday 20-30 new layers are georeferenced... Checkout the activity page if you haven't already, and head to the volume summaries to watch the mosaics grow.
Spent a little time last night finding undertakers for you. Enjoy!
New Orleans, La. (1885), Shreveport, La. (1909), Savannah, Ga. (1955), Sacramento, Ca. (1949), and Birmingham, Al. (1951).
Bonus: Artificial Limb Factory in Pittsburgh (1905).
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That's all for now, thanks for reading, and maybe see some of you tomorrow!
Adam
p.s. As always, you can reply directly to this email with questions or thoughts.