Any chance I could convince some of our amazing historic railway mappers to map the rail history of Tompkins County, NY?
A potential OHM partner, HistoryForge, has done some amazing work putting together replicable processes for gathering historical geodata. They have focused more on census records & extracting building point info from Sanborns. They even have their own instance of mapwarper.
I’d like to a) reuse their data; b) combine it with existing open data (e.g. joining the point data to footprints, where appropriate); and, c) sow how OHM can enhance the context of their data with built and natural environment geometries.
Railways would be a key help for part c) of this effort, not to mention being cool on their own.
Know anyone who could help?