Texas Time Machine

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Texas Time Machine

• Maps as a Gateway for Historical
• Cartographic Data

UT Arlington Library GIS Workshop Spring,
2009 Presenter Joshua Been
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Geographic Information Systems
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Roadmap

• History GIS Integration
• Challenges Solutions
• Overview of Historic Geographic Layers
• Texas Time Machine Tour
• How this Work Can Be Duplicated
• Potential Users?
• Lets Play!

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Non-Book/Periodical Sources

• Maps (geospatial data)
• Statistics (tabular data)
• Images (photos/sketches)

Time Sophisticated Software
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Wouldn't It Be Nice?
Preparation Accessibility
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Let's Talk GIS History
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Peeling the Cartographic Layers GIS
1904 Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad Map
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Peeling the Cartographic Layers GIS
1904 Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Map
Railroad Lines
Counties (pop/sq feet, Census 1910)
Cities
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Overlay With Images
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Overlay With Images
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Texas Time Machine Tour

• Four Data Formats
• Web via Browser
• Download GIS
• Download Google Earth
• Download Un-Georeferenced TIFF
• Three Data Types
• Cartographic (geospatial)
• Demographic (tabular)
• Images (sketches/photos)

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Texas Time Machine Tour

• GIS.UTA.EDU/TexasTimeMachine
• OR
• GIS.UTA.EDU/TTM

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Format 1 - Web
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Format 1 - Web
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Format 1 - Web
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Format 1 - Web
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Download
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Format 2 - Google Earth
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Format 2 - Google Earth
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Formats 3 4

• GIS Format
• Raw Image

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How to Make This All Happen?

• Steps
• High Resolution Map Image
• Needs
• Existing Digital Collection
• OR
• Map Collection
• Flatbed Scanner

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How to Make This All Happen?

• Steps
• Georeference Image
• (assign map coordinates spatial location)

Needs GIS Software PC With Sufficient
Memory (2 GB)
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How to Make This All Happen?

• Steps
• Measure Accuracy
• Needs
• GIS Software

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How to Make This All Happen?

• Steps
• Digitize (Vectorize) Image
• Also recording attributes in database

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Lets Play!
http//gis.uta.edu/ttm