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All content has been moved to blog.oldinsurancemaps.net. Past posts on this blog have been duplicated over there.

Near the end of the pilot project the platform was starting to bog down, but I still had to use the tools myself to prepare the content for transfer to LSU Atlas (which has been the plan all along). So, I decided to take evasive action and incrementally (but significantly) restructure it. This took a while, and though I'm not 100% done with the work, most of the important stuff is done and the preparation/split, georeference, and trim operations are now back to working. I also made a number of improvements along the way, so here's a quick summary of the changes...

Hello!​

This blog is a place to publish news and ideas about oldinsurancemaps.net, the platform at the heart of my masters thesis at LSU, "Creating a Public Space for Georeferencing Sanborn Maps". I have long been a superfan of Sanborn maps, so the project is as much a love letter to them as anything else.