{"id":2569,"date":"2015-06-18T02:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2019-07-17T00:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:24:40","slug":"fun-with-georeferencing-oakland-in-1857-vs-oakland-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2015\/06\/fun-with-georeferencing-oakland-in-1857-vs-oakland-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Georeferencing: Oakland in 1857 vs. Oakland in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a GIS class, and this week I learned how to georeference. Fun! (No, really, it&#8217;s fun.)<\/p>\n<p>I was just testing out my skillz and put together this little slider comparing the current map of Oakland and Alameda with an <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1857_U.S._Coast_Survey_Map_of_San_Antonio_Creek_and_Oakland,_California_(near_San_Francisco)_-_Geographicus_-_SanAntonioCreek-uscs-1857.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1857 map of the area<\/a> by the U.S. Coast Survey. It&#8217;s too small here for you to make out much detail, but it gives you an idea of just how much of the modern landscape is infill and how today&#8217;s roads follow some of the contours established back then. See? Fun!<\/p>\n<div class=\"twentytwenty\" class=\"twentytwenty-container\" style=\"display: none; max-width: 100%; width: 1056px; height: 816px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1857-oakland.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-oakland.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n\n<!-- Share-Widget Button BEGIN -->\n<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" myshare_id=\"mys_shareit\" myshare_url=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2015\/06\/fun-with-georeferencing-oakland-in-1857-vs-oakland-in-2015\/\" myshare_title=\"Fun With Georeferencing: Oakland in 1857 vs. Oakland in 2015\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\" return false;\" style=\"text-decoration:none; color:#000000; font-size:11px; line-height:20px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-widget\/img\/share-button-white-small.png\" height=\"20\" alt=\"Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nvar _myssmw=true;\n\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<!-- Share-Widget Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a GIS class, and this week I learned how to georeference. Fun! (No, really, it&#8217;s fun.) I was just testing out my skillz&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889,837],"tags":[892,891,873,890,869,627],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}