OldInsuranceMaps News

Big announcement!

In short… In OldInsuranceMaps.net it is now possible to georeference maps with only two ground control points, instead of the previously required three.

New feature on OldInsuranceMaps.net: authentication via OpenStreetMap!

We had two successful and enjoyable georeferencing events earlier this month in New Orleans, thanks again to everyone who came out!

Upcoming Georeferencing Events in New Orleans Here in New Orleans we are looking forward to two georeferencing events coming right up!

Code4Lib 2026 Early last month I attended Code4Lib 2026 in Philadelphia, and gave a presentation called Old Maps for New Apps: Making and Using Georeferenced Sanborn Maps at Scale.

Last month I presented at #Code4Lib: www.youtube.com/live/6nBJ… While preparing the slides, 10 minutes was feeling really short (especially for a new audience) but I reworked some things and I think it’s actually the best introductory talk about the proje…

New newsletter platform This email is (hopefully) finding you via my new setup on Micro.blog.

Mapping USA (January 31) This coming Saturday at 1pm CST I’ll be co-presenting in a workshop at Mapping USA, a free virtual conference organized by OpenStreetMap US.

Blog migration completed!

Herein: Updates on the future of OIM, some good ol' tech improvements, new blog post, and community notes.

The “multimask” is a concept in OldInsuranceMaps.net that greatly eases the creation of seamless mosaics from many different georeferenced layers.

Georeference-a-thons in New Orleans Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be holding two community georeferencing events at Second Line Brewing in New Orleans.

Recently I gave a presentation about OldInsuranceMaps.net for I-GUIDE’s Virtual Consulting Office speaker series and I was able to talk a bit more about the technical details of the platform than I have in the past, which was really fun and a great excuse…

Hello all!

What is S3 Object Storage?

Hello and happy second month of the New Year!

In case you didn’t know, GIS Day this year is next Wednesday, Nov. 20th, in the middle of Geography Awareness Week.

Last month I traveled to the annual North American Cartographic Information Society meeting, this year in Tacoma, WA, and presented about OldInsuranceMaps.net.

Upcoming Georeference-a-thons!

Hello!

Last November, Josh Sadvari and Michelle Hooper hosted a Georef-a-thon at The Ohio State University Libraries using OldInsuranceMaps.net, and wrote this detailed piece about how they prepared for the event, how the platform worked for them, and what kind…

Hello everyone and welcome to the final newsletter of 2023!

Working with Kiri and Sanjay from Development Seed, we put together this post for Dev Seed’s blog: Open Source Spotlight - Old Insurance Maps.

Healthy Regions & Policies Lab Speaker Series: Tomorrow!