We are raising funding to hire student assistants for an innovative project that combines local historical maps, aerial photos, and student GIS projects. The Humboldt GIS Data Archive is an innovative interactive digital interface to Humboldt County aerial photos and historic maps, and GIS Data and Projects. The Archive is designed to preserve GIS projects and their data, and make them discoverable along with historic maps and photos of Humboldt County.

This collaborative project with Dr. Jim Graham, faculty, students and the Library is creating a visual touchscreen and web interface to various data sets and GIS projects that are in and around Humboldt County, as well as archiving GIS projects, and digitizing print resources. Imagine superimposing GIS projects (hydrology, species, development) data, with historical and current maps and with aerial photos across decades.

This is an incredible opportunity to give students powerful work experience digitizing historic maps, aerial photos, and connecting them with GIS Datasets, to give everyone an innovative visualization of Humboldt County. Our GIS Student Assistant has already georeferenced several historic maps and Shuster Aerial photographs of our area, and we are seeking to expand the number of maps, aerial photos, and gather GIS projects so everyone can explore different layers of geography and history.