[or-roots] RE: UO Map Library

[Kith-n-Kin]

Thanks, Les 

Now, all I have to do is copy the instructions out, put them in some safe place, and try to remember where
they are the next time someone asks about a particular DLC <G>.  Oh, and thanks for offering to "fix the
link" with OU. I am webmaster for a website and really appreciate it when people tell me of broken links
-- it's hard to keep up.

Pat

|-----Original Message-----
|From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
|[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us] On Behalf Of 
|Leslie Chapman
|Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 00:12
|To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
|Subject: RE: [or-roots] RE: UO Map Library
|
|
|Pat;
|
|Looks pretty good, but I already knew how to get there, just a 
|couple of things; I didn't understand at first what you meant 
|by quadrant, you might want to substitute "section of state 
|map" or some other ponderous term, though I don't think it is 
|really necessary as what you mean sort of jumps out of the 
|page at you if you try to use it.
|
|I believe the FYI link is now;
|
|http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/what_we_have/GLO_survey_plats/home.html
|
|Oh, I will advise U of O web dude about link.
|
|also, I assume you are talking about viewing them in XP's 
|window and fax viewer, which is really a pretty good way to do 
|it if you don't want to alter the image in any way, I made a 
|discovery tonight, I had been using the magnifying icon at 
|bototm of screen to zoom in and out, but I have another 
|program called usa Photo maps that uses the plus and minus key 
|and I discovered it works the same way in windows fax and foto 
|viewer, and the big plus is the plus and minus keys work much 
|faster than the magnifying glass which is one of the things I 
|hated about using it was it zooms so slow.
|
|Les C
|
|
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
|[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Kith-n-Kin
|Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 4:16 PM
|To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
|Subject: RE: [or-roots] RE: UO Map Library
|
|
|OK, for those of you who caught the error in the names of the 
|file, my bad! I had copied one incorrectly.  Should be the 
|same file you select!
|
|Pat
|-----Original Message-----
|From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
|[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Kith-n-Kin
|Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 17:08
|To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
|Cc: LinLouVan at aol.com
|Subject: [or-roots] RE: UO Map Library
|
|
|One of our group asked me to put in a step-by-step on the 
|early township maps from the University of Oregon website. I 
|have had some challenges with this myself, so putting it in 
|steps will help me too.
|
|So, here goes. I hope someone will test this out and let's 
|fine tune it. I know these aren't the only zippered files we 
|find and they are always a challenge.
|
|Now, to help here, starting off, I am running Windows XP Pro, 
|with a copy of WinZip. I have "file extensions" showing as a 
|default in my Windows Explorer, so I can see what kind of files I have.
|
|Also, when I searched, or rather tried to link around in the 
|OU Library website, to get the "maps home", I had a great deal 
|of difficulty finding these maps. They need to check their 
|site mapping!
|
|Now, onward.
|
|These are large JPEG images in .zip files (1-2.5MB).  So the 
|whole process takes awhile.
|
|We will use the "save" rather than "open" method as it is like 
|practicing safe sex, you never know what viruses are out there.
|
|(1) Make a folder on your drive, called "Downloads" or 
|something like that.
|
|(2) You will also want a folder called "GenealogyMaps" or something.
|
|This is from: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/index.html but as 
|noted, I find it impossible to find my way to the maps from there.
|
|(3) So, in your browser, migrate to:
|
|http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/GIS/Data/Oregon/GLO_home.htm
|
|This gives you the entire state to choose from. (note: the FYI 
|http://www.library.sos.state.il.us/library. . . is a dead 
|link. This information could not be found anywhere on the 
|Illinois SOS site.)
|
|(4) From this page, select the quadrant you want.  Float the 
|cursor over the map, the townships in each quadrant will pop up.
|
|(5) Left click on a quadrant.
|
|For this example, we will use quadrant 3, Roseburg to Medford. 
|That's where some of the ancestors settled.
|
|(6) Select 27s07w1863.zip   Choice of Open/Save/Cancel
|
|(7) Choose "Save" On my computer, the default "save to" is 
|"desktop." Maneuver to your "Downloads" folder. Click to save.
|
|(8) The file will download. Then you get a popup saying 
|Open/OpenFolder/Close.
|
|(9) Select "Open Folder"
|
|You should see 27s06w1862.zip
|
|(10) Double click on the file. This will unpack the file and 
|it will show a "picture" icon instead of the zipper folder. If 
|you look at the details screen, it will indicate that it is a 
|JPEG image.
|
|(11) Open the file using your regular viewing software. (I use 
|the regular Windows viewer)  You will find out (in Section 8)  
|that my ancestor's land is not identified here. Dang.
|
|(12) You can leave the image in the folder, or save elsewhere 
|as a JPEG.
|
|I find it easier to download/save all the files I want in a 
|particular quadrant, in a session, then go back to Windows 
|Explorer and unzip/unpack them and look at them at one 
|sitting, rather than switching back and forth. I also take at 
|least one township on each of the four sides of the "township 
|of interest" because I'm always finding other "families of 
|interest" that way.
|
|Now, I'd really appreciate some feedback on this. What kind of 
|cleaning up does it need, etc.
|
|Thanks, Pat
|
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