Local GIS Tidbits
More than 3,200 historic maps of North Carolina are now available online as part of the digital North Carolina Maps project, set to be completed June 30.
The maps date from 1584 to 1923 including maps of every North Carolina county and maps published by the state through the year 2000.
The North Carolina Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library collaborated to produce the new site with the North Carolina State Archives and the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo. The UNC Library and the State Archives scanned the maps, and the Library hosts and administers the site.
- UNC Library News via Gary at Resource Shelf
The City of Santa Cruz has put its “in-house” GIS online using the ESRI Flex API. It uses one of the very common user interfaces and includes links to Google StreetView, Bing Maps Birds Eye View and Weather Underground.
Chilton County, Alabama is revamping its public website to be more user friendly - for $6000. Also noteworthy: there may be a third pay version that joins the now free and employee only versions. What would that have? “This site would include high-end information such as tools for building a spreadsheet.”
