Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12
Results 11 to 14 of 14

Thread: April/May '23 Lite Challenge: Map a historical portion of your hometown.

  1. #11

    Default

    Alright. I don't technically live in Kuala Lumpur but I work there and that will have to be good enough. Kuala Lumpur grew as a tin mining settlement. After hours of trawling through the library, I found a reproduction of a property map. It's not as old as I would have liked; the marking 'Federal Territory' dates it to after 1974 while the Hong Fatt property was alienated in 1988. I can overlay it on openstreetmap with surprising accuracy considering I took a phone-photo of a printed reproduction in a book (I had to distort and scale a bit). I'll try to unify it in a map showing where in the present day the mining pits ended up (more or less a no-brainer: they're now lakes) but maybe interesting and at least an exercise for me. (someone please explain to me why a property map has an inset of the Malacca straits which in turn has an inset of the South China Sea. These insets obscuring part of the property.)

    photo_2023-04-28_00-00-56.jpgosm.png

  2. #12
    Community Leader Bogie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Location
    Maine, USA
    Posts
    7,667

    Default

    Ok, Time to wrap this up! 24 hour warning, I will start the vote sometime after midnight tomorrow night. (US eastern daylight time)

  3. #13
    Guild Member
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Posts
    79
    Blog Entries
    2

    Default

    Is there but a single entry?

  4. #14

    Default

    There seem to be two?

Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •