Mapping the Population of the Pennsylvania State Capital in 1900
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Mapping the Population of the Pennsylvania State Capital in 1900
Rachel Carey, History Student, Messiah College
Rachel Morris, Environmental Engineering Student, Messiah College
Dan Stolyarov, Geospatial Technology Student, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Nicole Ernst, Associate Professor of Geospatial Technology, HACC
David Pettegrew, Associate Professor of History, Messiah College
Albert Sarvis, Assistant Professor of Geospatial Technology and Project Management, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Jeff Erikson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Messiah CollegeCentral PA GIS Day, November 19, 2014
City Beautiful
Mira Lloyd Dock
New Steps to the Susquehanna
New Capitol Building
The U.S. Census for 1900 Meets GIS
City Social: From This…
City Social: To This
City Social: Some Problems
Unfamiliar Jobs
City Social: Some Problems
Reading the Handwriting
Digital Harrisburg: GIS
The Base Map
The Base Map: Street View
Ten Wards
Residence Shapefiles
Create Features
Residence Shapefiles
Label Attributes
Residence Shapefiles
Residences!
Harrisburg: Look Familiar?
The Market
The Capitol
9455 Shapefiles later….
Merged and Linked!
Categories
Occupation
Categories
Occupation
Architect
Brick Maker
Plumber
Queries
Literacy
Queries
Literacy
From the dusty shelves to a file server
City Engineers Office
Atlas Storage
Georeferenced Images and Geocoded Census Data
Along came the residence polygons
Residence centroids joined to census records
36,234 census individuals mapped to buildings
Multiple co-located records per residence
Continuing Collaboration and Development
Next Steps
Visualization Distribute individual records within residences Pattern analysis of attributes such as race, occupation, literacy, etc
Sharing Online web mapping and storytelling
Trend Analysis Subsequent decades of census data Demographic distribution trends
Multiple Property National Register Maps
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic resources worthy of preservation
The City Beautiful Nomination: Riverfront Park Reservoir Park Italian Lake Bellevue Park Cameron and Paxtang Parkways City Island Mulberry Street Viaduct Wildwood Lake
The Manning Map – Parks and Boulevards
Former and Existing Conditions
Then and Now maps were created
Maps contained: Historical and current aerial photography Latitude/longitude coordinates Historical and current photographs
Follow-up Sessions
Mapping the Population of the Pennsylvania State Capital in 1900 Room 207
Exploring the Proposed City Beautiful National Register Nomination with Pictometry Online (POL) Room 211