Scanning of Special Reports for Geographic Names

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Scanning of Special Reports for Geographic Names
Geographic names are the primary location tools
used in all mapping products, supplemented by the
use of latitude and longitude coordinates

• NOAA conducted geographic names field
  investigations beginning in the early 1900s.
  
• These historical special reports document the
  early research required to
  
• provide local points of reference and
• create meaningful mapping products that still
  exist today

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Scanning of Special Reports for Geographic Names

• Sample materials from Special Report 348
• Road maps
• Tax maps
• Negatives
• Final reports
• Historic place name books

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Special Reports for Geographic Names
Simple SR
Box of Special Reports
Black and white scans for text-based documents
Color scans for maps and photographs Dimens
ions vary from 4 X 4 to 36 X 55
Complex SR
Project includes approximately 10,000 documents
distributed across 6 boxes
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Detailed Sample Special Report 101
Middle Page
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Deliverables

• Color Scans (Maps, Charts, Photos)
• JPEG or TIFF compression from the original 400dpi
  RGB 256K scan
  
• B/W Scans (text)
• Optical Character Recognition if possible (may
  require some hand keying)
  
• Indexed by Special Report ( project number)
  requests assistance with capturing data sets
  (pdf?)