Jeffrey Burnett
For the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands project, I have built the framework for a map that uses publicly available deed documents to represent the history of landownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, a resort town on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Oak Bluffs has historically been a pluralistic, multi-ethnic and multi-racial, summer resort community with numerous year-round residents, famously noted for being a popular place for African American vacationers 1 . The web-based map spati
The map was built using Leafletsjs, an opensource JavaScript library for creating web mapping services and projects. After opening the map users will see the full extend of the lots owned and lived on since the Highlands area was subdivided in 1870. For the test version this is only thirty lots. Users will be able to interact with the map by adjusting the time slider to view the community at a specific time span, clicking on lots to reveal popup with additional information, use the search box to find specif
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