This process was simple but the tools were a bit hard to navigate and it also didn’t feel very clear. i felt like I was guessing a lot of things and then it didn’t really turn out that accurate. Although we did a very small example, it made me better understand how historic digital maps are created, and that the process is more manual that one might expect. It was a bit hard to find points to match in the maps as I think the older map that I chose is a bit geographically inaccurate. The river and the islands were different in both images and the street names that were available to see in one wasn’t there in the other so the image ended up not really being perfectly placed even though I chose five points in each as recommended. It was also hard to understand how one point correlated to the other because my initial map was turned in a different direction and I couldn’t figure out how to flip the image.
By doing a project like this, one can identify where historic sites are situated in today’s geography and make overarching historic commentary on these areas. It would be nice to have an option for the viewer to change the opacity of the old map so they can see how it looks today underneath that image. But I think the veracity of old maps should be questioned as well, as technology was not as advanced. This can work very well to make connections from past to present, or to put several different historic eras events or locations on a map together, but it also takes the context out of the initial map so it probably won’t be very useful for depicting a location or event that’s contained in one era.