Move over Google Maps, it's time to get medieval on your pixels. Well, perhaps not that ancient, but Charles R Carpenter has cornered the market in historical property maps, known as cadastral maps.
Cadastral maps recorded property ownership at every address in the US and Carpenter’s company, Historic MapWorks LLC of Scarborough, Maine, now owns the rights to some 1.2 million of them, covering the entire country.
Seven employees are scanning the map library and linking them street by street to current maps, using latitude and longitude points where old streets have disappeared and old neighborhoods are paved over. “We have produced a digital, historic Google Earth,” said Carpenter.
Earlier this month, Google announced in a blog post that its Google Earth product would begin offering historical images. All this is free, but Carpenter believes subscribers will pay $30 a month for unfettered access to many times more and deeper historical data in an online map collection that is expanding daily.
So if you want to take a (limited) look at old Florida, and Manatee County in particular, click on the Historic MapWorks site
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Friday 27 February 2009
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