A New View to the Sanborn Map Collection of Wayne County, Indiana 2013 Indiana GIS Day & Conference...

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 47374

Office: 765-973-9385

[email protected]

Gunty Atkins, GISP

GIS Coordinator,

Wayne County Surveyor’s Office


Office: 765-973-9483

[email protected]


http://www.igic.org/


MAP DETAILS


• IndianaView Funding

• Beneficiaries

• What is the Sanborn Map Collection?

• Confined to Books

• Indiana’s Digital Archiving Project

• Old Maps with a Modern View



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


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19092013

Inside GovernmentAssessorPlanning and ZoningSurveyorEnvironmental compliance/regulatory

Outside GovernmentLawyersEnvironmental Assessments FirmsHistoriansArcheologistsAgricultureUtilities

Beneficiaries


Sanborn Map

• What is the Collection



• Confined to Books

Sanborn Map

Sanborn Map

• Indiana’s Digital Archiving Project

• Over 10,000 public domain maps

• Download without restriction

• 305 cities and towns

• 20 TB storage



Sanborn Map

• Old Maps with a Modern View



Creating Image Layers

Software used:• GIMP (manipulating images)

• ArcGIS Desktop (Rectification and clipping)


•Open source•Best of all it is FREE!•http://www.gimp.org

•Most GIS systems already use ArcGIS




Tools used:

• Add Alpha Channel• Erase/Cut• Rotate 90 deg.• Rotate Tool• Scale Tool• Perspective Tool• Merge Tool



Two Methods:


• 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



Rectangular Clipped Images


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




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




Ready for Georeferencing


Rectangular Clipped Image


Georeferencing Images


Rectangular Clipped ImageClipping Images



• Custom Shape Clipped Images

Hit theEasy Button



Custom Shaped Clipped Images


Results


Sanborn Map

Conclusion

• Geo-referenced Mosaic for Each Map Set in Wayne County

Indiana Spatial Data Portal



Sanborn MapShaun N. Scholer & Gunty Atkins

Wayne County/Richmond GIS Interlocal


Office: 765-973-9201

[email protected]

[email protected]

Grant Provided by:

IndianaView Consortium

Larry Biehl

Purdue University

Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP)

[email protected]

IGIC

Philip S. Worrall

Executive Director

Indiana Geographic Information Council, Inc.

[email protected]

317.504.4389

Partnerships:

Indiana Spatial Data Portal

Anna Radue

Indiana University

[email protected]


mailto:[email protected]


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