{"id":18152,"date":"2012-09-07T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18152"},"modified":"2012-09-07T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:01:50","slug":"map-library-partners-with-google-to-reveal-niagara%e2%80%99s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/09\/map-library-partners-with-google-to-reveal-niagara%e2%80%99s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Library partners with Google to reveal Niagara\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18178\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18178\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18178\" title=\"Campus Aerial 1934\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/brock1934.jpeg\" alt=\"An aerial photo taken in 1934 of the land that today is Brock's campus.\" width=\"400\" height=\"434\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial photo taken in 1934 of the land that today is Brock&#39;s campus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Google Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/earth\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth<\/a> now provides users with a view to Niagara&#8217;s past, thanks to Brock University&#8217;s <a title=\"Map Library\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/collections\/maplibrary\" target=\"_blank\">James A. Gibson Map Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The satellite image database features a detailed 1934 view of Niagara for the world to explore, using the unique aerial photo collection from the map library.<a title=\"Map Library\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/collections\/maplibrary\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, Google Earth&#8217;s historical imagery for Niagara dated back to only 1996. The addition of Brock&#8217;s historical aerial photos, digitized by library staff to be superimposed onto Google&#8217;s virtual globe, allows users to study the region &#8211; their house or neighbourhood, a shipwreck on the Welland Canal &#8211; in a way they never could before.<\/p>\n<p>The detail achieved through high-resolution digitization, coupled with the ability to zoom in closely on an area, magnifies features that aren&#8217;t even visible in the original paper photos.<\/p>\n<p>This enhancement to Google&#8217;s database of imagery is one that no other university has accomplished to such an extent.<\/p>\n<p>Brock&#8217;s map library has made a commitment to preserving its historical collections through the use of digital technology. Using Google Earth&#8217;s time slider tool, the historical landscape can be easily compared to present day, which is a critical source of information for environmental, historical, biological, economic and urban planning applications.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara imagery has also been loaded to the <a title=\"Niagara Navigator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/exploring\/navigator.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Region&#8217;s Niagara Navigator<\/a> web mapping portal.<\/p>\n<p>The map library is currently digitizing its 1955 series to add to this collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Earth now provides users with a view to Niagara&#8217;s past, thanks to Brock University&#8217;s library staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[529,25,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18183,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions\/18183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}