A New View to the Sanborn Map Collection of Wayne County, Indiana 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Shaun N. Scholer, GISP GIS Manager, Wayne County/Richmond GIS Interlocal 401 E Main St. Richmond, IN Office: Gunty Atkins, GISP GIS Coordinator, Wayne County Surveyor’s Office 401 E Main St. Richmond, IN Office:
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IndianaView Funding Beneficiaries What is the Sanborn Map Collection? Confined to Books Indiana’s Digital Archiving Project Old Maps with a Modern View 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
IndianaView Internal Grant Program Administrator: Larry Biehl, Purdue University Funding Source: Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey AmericaView: Nationwide partnership of remote sensing scientists supporting remote sensing research, K-12 and higher education. Partnerships: IGIC and Indiana Spatial Data Portal 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Indiana GIS Day & Conference Inside Government Assessor Planning and Zoning Surveyor Environmental compliance/regulatory Outside Government Lawyers Environmental Assessments Firms Historians Archeologists Agriculture Utilities Beneficiaries
Sanborn Map What is the Collection 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Confined to Books Sanborn Map
Indiana’s Digital Archiving Project Over 10,000 public domain maps Download without restriction 305 cities and towns 20 TB storage 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Sanborn Map Old Maps with a Modern View 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Creating Image Layers Software used: GIMP (manipulating images) ArcGIS Desktop (Rectification and clipping) 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Open source Best of all it is FREE! Most GIS systems already use ArcGIS
Creating Image Layers 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Tools used: Add Alpha Channel Erase/Cut Rotate 90 deg. Rotate Tool Scale Tool Perspective Tool Merge Tool
Creating Image Layers Two Methods: 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Rectangular Clipped Images Custom Shape Clipped Images Method Wayne Co used Works well with various software- Map Guide, AutoCad, Microstation Etc Complex in creating Works well within the ArcGIS world of raster mosaic datasets
Rectangular Clipped Images Preplanning Would like to keep clipped edges in road right of ways Determine which map pages to merge to create good North South break lines 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Rectangular Clipped Images 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Create Base Map in ArcGIS Use Features found on the Sanborn Map Road R/W Parcel Lines Set scale to equal Sanborn Map Most maps 1”=50’ Export base map for use in GIMP Tiff or Jpg
Rectangular Clipped Images 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Add map pages and base map to GIMP Rectify against base map Rotate, Stretch, Erase Cut and paste data that might get lost in the clipping process
Rectangular Clipped Images 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Ready for Georeferencing
Rectangular Clipped Image 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Georeferencing Images
Rectangular Clipped Image Clipping Images 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Custom Shape Clipped Images Hit the Easy Button 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Custom Shaped Clipped Images 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference Results
Sanborn Map Conclusion Geo-referenced Mosaic for Each Map Set in Wayne County Indiana Spatial Data Portal 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference
Sanborn Map Shaun N. Scholer & Gunty Atkins Wayne County/Richmond GIS Interlocal 401 E Main St. Richmond, IN Office: Grant Provided by: IndianaView Consortium Larry Biehl Purdue University Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) IGIC Philip S. Worrall Executive Director Indiana Geographic Information Council, Inc Partnerships: Indiana Spatial Data Portal Anna Radue Indiana University 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference