4 replies to this topic

[bryanr]

John,

Why don't you take one of your existing downtown maps and colorize it to show who owns what. I'm thinking mainly of the Bass/Sundance properties and XTO energy. Here is a map, that made me think of this after I was talking with Dad.

Later, Bryan

[David Love]

John,

Why don't you take one of your existing downtown maps and colorize it to show who owns what. I'm thinking mainly of the Bass/Sundance properties and XTO energy. Here is a map, that made me think of this after I was talking with Dad.

Later, Bryan

That's a bit of work... Here's where you can find the info: http://www.tad.org

There are a number of online maps that can be populated with that info, the county has their records linked to maps, I know for a fact they're working on some really neat mapping projects, but the folks that set up the current resources didn't seem to follow any normalization standards, very hard system to use where mapping is concerned.

For online map options you have:

http://local.live.com/
http://maps.google.com/maps
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ -a work in progress
http://maps.yahoo.com/

[bryanr]

David,

What I was thinking was just colorizing an overhead view of downtown, with just 2 colors that represent the two major building owners in downtown. That dosen't seem like a lot of work, maybe I'm wrong, all it would take would be using a current block style map and doing flood filling of the different buildings.

Bryan

John,

Why don't you take one of your existing downtown maps and colorize it to show who owns what. I'm thinking mainly of the Bass/Sundance properties and XTO energy. Here is a map, that made me think of this after I was talking with Dad.

Later, Bryan

That's a bit of work... Here's where you can find the info: http://www.tad.org

There are a number of online maps that can be populated with that info, the county has their records linked to maps, I know for a fact they're working on some really neat mapping projects, but the folks that set up the current resources didn't seem to follow any normalization standards, very hard system to use where mapping is concerned.

For online map options you have:

http://local.live.com/
http://maps.google.com/maps
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ -a work in progress
http://maps.yahoo.com/

[360texas]

North Central Texas Council Of Governemts has an updated map set that you can use for free. Free is good. If you are going to use it in a public place the copyright information just says you only need to display http://www.dfwmaps.com in the lower left and ©NCTCOG in the upper right corner of the map image. Sounds fair to me. In this map you can see it has the RadioShack River Front Campus completed. The Aerial's are taken every 2 years. So 2007 update release is coming up soon.



Here is the link I used to get the photo below:



NCTCOG DfwMaps



If this link takes you to a downtown view that is NOT an Aerial picture.. select 2005 Aerial and UPDATE map.



To acquire a map from NCTCOG is simple. Scroll and zoom into the section you want.



Click the 'Print' text button that will bring up a full screen version with the Discalimer box on the bottom

Mouse over the center of the image

Right mouse click and select 'Save Picture As' give it a new filename. I would recommend saving it as a .BMP file for best resolution. Besure to write down the folder you saved it in.



Now use your favorite photo editor colorize the image.

[AndyN]

There you go. We got the means and the methods and sounds like Bryan would be interested in pulling this together for us. Let us know when you finish it, BryanR.