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  1. As is his custom Tim @wragge Sherratt undersells (above) what he's done.

    He's programmatically geolocated "18,603 out of 20,644 photos" digitised by #StateLibraryVIC.

    Tim: "When I started working on the collection I wasn’t really sure what was possible." So he learnt, tried, adapted, all with a goal in mind. Tim has an uncommon mind and set of skills. And uncommon productivity. His article is easy to read - if needed one can skim the more technical detail. Tim documents his methods to be shared.

    #digitalHumanities #historicalMapping #OpenStreetMap #heritageAU #ozGLAM

    Tim's blog post: updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0

  2. As is his custom Tim @wragge Sherratt undersells (above) what he's done.

    He's programmatically geolocated "18,603 out of 20,644 photos" digitised by #StateLibraryVIC.

    Tim: "When I started working on the collection I wasn’t really sure what was possible." So he learnt, tried, adapted, all with a goal in mind. Tim has an uncommon mind and set of skills. And uncommon productivity. His article is easy to read - if needed one can skim the more technical detail. Tim documents his methods to be shared.

    #digitalHumanities #historicalMapping #OpenStreetMap #heritageAU #ozGLAM

    Tim's blog post: updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0

  3. As is his custom Tim @wragge Sherratt undersells (above) what he's done.

    He's programmatically geolocated "18,603 out of 20,644 photos" digitised by #StateLibraryVIC.

    Tim: "When I started working on the collection I wasn’t really sure what was possible." So he learnt, tried, adapted, all with a goal in mind. Tim has an uncommon mind and set of skills. And uncommon productivity. His article is easy to read - if needed one can skim the more technical detail. Tim documents his methods to be shared.

    #digitalHumanities #historicalMapping #OpenStreetMap #heritageAU #ozGLAM

    Tim's blog post: updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0

  4. As is his custom Tim @wragge Sherratt undersells (above) what he's done.

    He's programmatically geolocated "18,603 out of 20,644 photos" digitised by #StateLibraryVIC.

    Tim: "When I started working on the collection I wasn’t really sure what was possible." So he learnt, tried, adapted, all with a goal in mind. Tim has an uncommon mind and set of skills. And uncommon productivity. His article is easy to read - if needed one can skim the more technical detail. Tim documents his methods to be shared.

    #digitalHumanities #historicalMapping #OpenStreetMap #heritageAU #ozGLAM

    Tim's blog post: updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0

  5. (2/3) Map of #S_T_Gill's 1852 scenes of the gold diggings in Victoria, Australia - at least the readily mappable ones. Built in OpenStreetMap's #uMap with #AllMaps tiles for custom background. #historicalMapping #historyAU
    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s

  6. (2/3) Map of #S_T_Gill's 1852 scenes of the gold diggings in Victoria, Australia - at least the readily mappable ones. Built in OpenStreetMap's #uMap with #AllMaps tiles for custom background. #historicalMapping #historyAU
    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s

  7. (2/3) Map of #S_T_Gill's 1852 scenes of the gold diggings in Victoria, Australia - at least the readily mappable ones. Built in OpenStreetMap's #uMap with #AllMaps tiles for custom background. #historicalMapping #historyAU
    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s

  8. (2/3) Map of #S_T_Gill's 1852 scenes of the gold diggings in Victoria, Australia - at least the readily mappable ones. Built in OpenStreetMap's #uMap with #AllMaps tiles for custom background. #historicalMapping #historyAU
    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s

  9. (2/3) Map of #S_T_Gill's 1852 scenes of the gold diggings in Victoria, Australia - at least the readily mappable ones. Built in OpenStreetMap's #uMap with #AllMaps tiles for custom background. #historicalMapping #historyAU
    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/s

  10. Years ago I started with just this scrap piece of paper and sketched these main #Adelaide intersections in the 1840s.
    This evolved into digital #historicalMapping using #uMap (which makes all the work look easy) and #mapWarper. I've now geolocated 257 works with latitude, longitude and view bearing.
    I recently added the Victorian diggings 1852 to the maps.

    Search the list of mapped works: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/index_of
    Read about the maps in the #S_T_Gill project and how I developed them: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill
    #historyAU #digitalHumanities

  11. Years ago I started with just this scrap piece of paper and sketched these main #Adelaide intersections in the 1840s.
    This evolved into digital #historicalMapping using #uMap (which makes all the work look easy) and #mapWarper. I've now geolocated 257 works with latitude, longitude and view bearing.
    I recently added the Victorian diggings 1852 to the maps.

    Search the list of mapped works: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/index_of
    Read about the maps in the #S_T_Gill project and how I developed them: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill
    #historyAU #digitalHumanities

  12. Years ago I started with just this scrap piece of paper and sketched these main #Adelaide intersections in the 1840s.
    This evolved into digital #historicalMapping using #uMap (which makes all the work look easy) and #mapWarper. I've now geolocated 257 works with latitude, longitude and view bearing.
    I recently added the Victorian diggings 1852 to the maps.

    Search the list of mapped works: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/index_of
    Read about the maps in the #S_T_Gill project and how I developed them: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill
    #historyAU #digitalHumanities

  13. Years ago I started with just this scrap piece of paper and sketched these main #Adelaide intersections in the 1840s.
    This evolved into digital #historicalMapping using #uMap (which makes all the work look easy) and #mapWarper. I've now geolocated 257 works with latitude, longitude and view bearing.
    I recently added the Victorian diggings 1852 to the maps.

    Search the list of mapped works: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/index_of
    Read about the maps in the #S_T_Gill project and how I developed them: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill
    #historyAU #digitalHumanities

  14. Years ago I started with just this scrap piece of paper and sketched these main #Adelaide intersections in the 1840s.
    This evolved into digital #historicalMapping using #uMap (which makes all the work look easy) and #mapWarper. I've now geolocated 257 works with latitude, longitude and view bearing.
    I recently added the Victorian diggings 1852 to the maps.

    Search the list of mapped works: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/index_of
    Read about the maps in the #S_T_Gill project and how I developed them: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill
    #historyAU #digitalHumanities

  15. In 1851 George French Angas went from Sydney to the NSW gold diggings via the Blue Mountains. This map shows his sketches along the way and corrects the dating on these drawings in #NationalLibraryAU collection. (This map was a side activity in the #S_T_Gill project.) #historyAU #historyNSW #historicalMapping

    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/a

  16. In 1851 George French Angas went from Sydney to the NSW gold diggings via the Blue Mountains. This map shows his sketches along the way and corrects the dating on these drawings in #NationalLibraryAU collection. (This map was a side activity in the #S_T_Gill project.) #historyAU #historyNSW #historicalMapping

    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/a

  17. In 1851 George French Angas went from Sydney to the NSW gold diggings via the Blue Mountains. This map shows his sketches along the way and corrects the dating on these drawings in #NationalLibraryAU collection. (This map was a side activity in the #S_T_Gill project.) #historyAU #historyNSW #historicalMapping

    Online map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/a

  18. We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

  19. We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

  20. We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

  21. We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

  22. We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

  23. #StateLibraryNSW has a surprisingly large number of South Australian colonial artworks. I've finished updating SLNSW links to their new catalogue from my #S_T_Gill project. This includes my maps of 1840s #SouthAustralia and #Adelaide which are now practically complete. Mapping using #uMap (OpenStreetMap).

    #historyAU #historicalMapping #digitalHumanities

    coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  24. #StateLibraryNSW has a surprisingly large number of South Australian colonial artworks. I've finished updating SLNSW links to their new catalogue from my #S_T_Gill project. This includes my maps of 1840s #SouthAustralia and #Adelaide which are now practically complete. Mapping using #uMap (OpenStreetMap).

    #historyAU #historicalMapping #digitalHumanities

    coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  25. #StateLibraryNSW has a surprisingly large number of South Australian colonial artworks. I've finished updating SLNSW links to their new catalogue from my #S_T_Gill project. This includes my maps of 1840s #SouthAustralia and #Adelaide which are now practically complete. Mapping using #uMap (OpenStreetMap).

    #historyAU #historicalMapping #digitalHumanities

    coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  26. #StateLibraryNSW has a surprisingly large number of South Australian colonial artworks. I've finished updating SLNSW links to their new catalogue from my #S_T_Gill project. This includes my maps of 1840s #SouthAustralia and #Adelaide which are now practically complete. Mapping using #uMap (OpenStreetMap).

    #historyAU #historicalMapping #digitalHumanities

    coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  27. #StateLibraryNSW has a surprisingly large number of South Australian colonial artworks. I've finished updating SLNSW links to their new catalogue from my #S_T_Gill project. This includes my maps of 1840s #SouthAustralia and #Adelaide which are now practically complete. Mapping using #uMap (OpenStreetMap).

    #historyAU #historicalMapping #digitalHumanities

    coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  28. Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

    slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

  29. Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

    slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

  30. Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

    slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

  31. Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

    slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

  32. Interested in #Melbourne and regional #VictoriaAU built heritage? Then do check out @wragge's digital mapping of 1970s Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographs from the #StateLibraryVIC collection. Currently includes inner Melbourne suburbs and goldfields towns. Zoom in, click on a street! #historicalMapping

    slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

  33. My #artHistory project already links catalogue entries to map locations where known. But it was only zooming in to location and pin. I've now incorporated #uMap permalinks to also popup the artwork information panel. I also do this for the address of the artist's studios. #historicalMapping #S_T_Gill

    For example, see: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill which has studio location and location of "Floraville" view.

  34. My #artHistory project already links catalogue entries to map locations where known. But it was only zooming in to location and pin. I've now incorporated #uMap permalinks to also popup the artwork information panel. I also do this for the address of the artist's studios. #historicalMapping #S_T_Gill

    For example, see: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill which has studio location and location of "Floraville" view.

  35. My #artHistory project already links catalogue entries to map locations where known. But it was only zooming in to location and pin. I've now incorporated #uMap permalinks to also popup the artwork information panel. I also do this for the address of the artist's studios. #historicalMapping #S_T_Gill

    For example, see: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill which has studio location and location of "Floraville" view.

  36. My #artHistory project already links catalogue entries to map locations where known. But it was only zooming in to location and pin. I've now incorporated #uMap permalinks to also popup the artwork information panel. I also do this for the address of the artist's studios. #historicalMapping #S_T_Gill

    For example, see: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill which has studio location and location of "Floraville" view.

  37. My #artHistory project already links catalogue entries to map locations where known. But it was only zooming in to location and pin. I've now incorporated #uMap permalinks to also popup the artwork information panel. I also do this for the address of the artist's studios. #historicalMapping #S_T_Gill

    For example, see: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill which has studio location and location of "Floraville" view.

  38. Invention for four colour (map) printing - blue, yellow, red, black - now our CYMK. #historicalMapping #1840s William Clowes, London

    The "sheet of pure white drawing paper is ... perfectly unconscious of the impending fate that awaits it"!

    Read news: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article716

  39. Invention for four colour (map) printing - blue, yellow, red, black - now our CYMK. #historicalMapping #1840s William Clowes, London

    The "sheet of pure white drawing paper is ... perfectly unconscious of the impending fate that awaits it"!

    Read news: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article716