Month: April 2013
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Detail Plans on Google Earth
Having recently Google-Earthified several historical maps of the Milton Reach and surrounding suburbs, I thought I’d apply the same technique to some of the City Council’s ‘Detail Plans’. These plans were produced prior to sewerage being installed in Brisbane, and they depict the built environment at a much finer spatial scale than the maps I…
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Map Mania!
In several posts and pages now I have used screenshots from Google Earth showing overlays of historical maps, such as the example below. I have found this to be a very useful way to both explore and present these maps, and because Google Earth is freely available, I had also hoped that it would provide…