Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mapping the V&T Railroad

After Georeferencing several tax assessor maps from the 1918's, I was able to map part of the V&T Railroad. Here are the results layered into Google Earth. As you can see from close-ups of the railroad, the measurements are not exact. This could be explained from errors from the old tax maps or from the coordinate systems used for georeferencing.
Nevertheless, these maps show several interesting geographical features that occured almost 90 years later.
Here are the results:







































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