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World Heritage.

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en

 

Public Art Around The World — a list and information on public art.

http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/

 

Thailand academic institutions Directory

http://www.university-directory.eu/Thailand/Thailand.html#.T9bqT45pEXc

 

State of Western Australia War Memorial website

http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/Pages/Default.aspx

 

Blog discussing Thailand government.

Useful for statues, tourist spots, buildings, and so forth.

http://tambon.blogspot.com/

 

Asia's architectural heritage

http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/

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World Heritage.

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en

 

Public Art Around The World — a list and information on public art.

http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/

 

Thailand academic institutions Directory

http://www.university-directory.eu/Thailand/Thailand.html#.T9bqT45pEXc

 

State of Western Australia War Memorial website

http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/Pages/Default.aspx

 

Blog discussing Thailand government.

Useful for statues, tourist spots, buildings, and so forth.

http://tambon.blogspot.com/

 

Asia's architectural heritage

http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/

 

Great topic Bruce thanks for starting it.

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American Guide Series

http://www.librarything.com/series/American%252BGuide%252BSeries

 

Historic Markers

http://www.hmdb.org/

Historic Markers - AL, FL, GA & TN

http://www.lat34north.com/MarkerAcrossSE.cfm

 

NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings

http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/summary.asp

 

River Gauges

http://water.usgs.gov/

GA - http://ga2.er.usgs.gov/gawater/index.cfm

 

Static Artillery Displays – American Civil War Cannons

http://robinsonsbattery.org/122629.html

 

U.S. Benchmarks

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/

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Indiana resources:

 

Find an Indiana Historical Marker

http://www.in.gov/history/2350.htm

 

Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources: Benchmarks for Indiana

http://www.in.gov/dnr/water/3573.htm

 

General resources:

 

Historic Map Works. Particularly useful are the vintage maps (I was looking at a 1930's Indiana Plat Book map) for helping with the period descriptions of Benchmarks.

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Browse/

 

http://www.bridgehunter.com

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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I have a link to a site which has catalogued essentially all the military equipment on display in Canada, including artillery, war planes, armoured vehicles, small arms, etc.

There are also pages on locomotives in Canada AND many pages on warplanes in the US and warplanes of various countries. It is a real handy link to have when one finds an old War of 1812 cannon, for example.

Home page: Silver Hawk Author

 

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On 2018-09-17 at 3:34 PM, BK-Hunters said:

I have a link to a site which has catalogued essentially all the military equipment on display in Canada, including artillery, war planes, armoured vehicles, small arms, etc.

There are also pages on locomotives in Canada AND many pages on warplanes in the US and warplanes of various countries. It is a real handy link to have when one finds an old War of 1812 cannon, for example.

Home page: Silver Hawk Author

 

It's a good resource but watch for errors. No idea how he gets all that info, but it safe to say he doesn't visit every item listed. For example a pair of cannons near where I live were listed as being brass, but when I inspected them it was clear they were iron. And some of the markings were incorrect. But thanks to that site I learned how to find and decipher the various marks on at least the many British 1812- era cannons in my part of the world. I was amazed to learn how much can be determined based on a couple letters and numbers stamped in various places. I sent him an email offering photos and details but never received a response.

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Anybody here use Copyfish? It's available as an extension for Chrome - possibly in other formats, as well.

What's Copyfish, you ask? It's a little extension which allows copying text from an image on a web page, outputting it as text. It does a passable job, sometimes the results are perfect, sometimes much less so. Naturally, it depends on the quality of the original.

 

It can be really useful when you'd really, really like to use a snippet of text and are (like me) such a clumsy typer that it would be quicker to copy it than to retype it. One example is WMing a news article from an old scanned newspaper. If the scan is reasonably good Copyfish shines here. It's (usually) quicker than doing OCR on a screen shot.

It can also be handy when one encounters a web page which doesn't allow right clicks or clicking, dragging and copying. One option is often to save a copy of the page, remove the offending script, then load the page locally and copy the text. Sometimes a "CTRL U" will do the trick, as well. The other option is Copyfish.

Keith

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Here's a useful item for Lucky 7 Waymarkers, possibly others, as well:

https://flopp.net

It's an online mapping utility which allows one to put markers on a map (several different maps are available, including a satellite view), name the markers, and put distance lines between markers, measuring the straight line distance. It's real handy, both for making a map to go along with a Waymark and for making sure WMs are within the requisite distance. Flopps Maps can even be used to "Fit" WMs within the required distance (161 metres or 805 metres) by creating a centre point, inserting lines from it to the most distant WMs, then moving it around until everything fits. it will accept both Decimal Degrees and Degrees and Minutes as input.

 

Don't forget to put a copy of your initial coordinates in the "Coordinates or Location" box at the top right before you start. That is needed to get the map presented to your place of interest.

 

They used to have access to a Google URL shortener but Google dropped that utility, so the URLS can get pretty long.

For those who are concerned about huge, long URLs, they can use this: https://tinyurl.com to shorten them.

Keith

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Since we are giving away secrets - if anyone gets into my neck of the prairie here in the Sunflower State and decides to post historical buildings or sometimes bridges, here is a great resource that will usually help with more information - you do not have to sign up for the service - you can search as a guest:

 

Kansas Historic Resource Inventory
 

It's been a great help when I post Victorian Era Architecture and getting more information on my National Register Contributing Buildings.

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Today I was looking for information of a specific milestone in Skopje, North Macedonia and found the Austrian website http://lupa.at/. The database includes more than 30,000 antique stone monuments and more than 60,000 photos. Unfortunately, it only includes monuments that are in or in front of museums and offers the information only in German language (let me know if you need help). The main focus is of course Europe, but the database contains items to be found in more than 30 countries (unfortunately only one monument in the USA and none in Canada), but it is a very useful source for information on waymarks in the categories Milestones, (ancient) Relief Art Sculptures, and probably much more.

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20 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

Many of us know www.openstreetmap.org, but did you know that there is also a project called https://www.openrailwaymap.org/? Might be useful for WM in the Active Rail Locations category or other train related categories. 

 

This is TOO COOL, Andreas. THANK YOU!! The site includes a spur off a Wye near my home that I know exists, but have yet to find on other RR maps. Though it's indicated as more of a path than a RR spur, I can tell by the terrain that it was, or was at least intended to be by the Great Northern RR, a spur.  I have walked down that spur, now just a raised section of land, many times and will many times in the future. It's indicated by the arrow in the pic below. Off the south end of the Wye is what could well be the shortest rail trail in the world, just 410 metres in length.

All the tracks here were abandoned and removed in 1936.

Strangely, though, it doesn't include the extension from the northeast corner of the WYE which went to the station, a block or so short of the Columbia & Western track passing by running northwest-southeast. It also has left out the section of track from the northwest corner of the Wye which is continued on the map to the northwest.

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Useful Links for US Benchmarks Category - 

 

Benchmark Map Viewer - By Scaredy Cat Films - maintained by fellow GC member Monkeykat

 

National Geodetic Survey Data Explorer (noaa.gov) - this is the viewer from the National Geodetic Survey

 

Station Selection - NOAA Tides & Currents - also from the NGS - a great source of info on tidal benchmarks.

 

BenchMap - Apps on Google Play - Benchmark App available in Play Store for Android users

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Thanks for posting that, Ernmark. I'm gonna try that Android App. Though I don't plan on going back to the US anytime soon, I'm hoping it may be of some use with Border Monuments in the future.

 

And while we're at it here are my most used Canadian Benchmark URLs:

Passive Control Networks - Canada wide map of all Canadian Benchmarks. Lots of other tools, options and links on this page.

Gravity Network - Canadian Gravity Network stations

PROVINCIAL NETWORKS - Portal to all provincial networks within Canada

Alberta Geodetic Control Unit - pointer to Alberta benchmarks and survey markers of all types. Lotsa stuff to wade through here, but INVALUABLE in discovering thousands of markers not catalogued anywhere else.

SPIN - Alberta Spatial Information Network -  land titles data products, registered survey plans, township images, survey control markers

Geodiscover Alberta - The essential Alberta map. Instructions on how to use are in a pane on the left.

MASCOT Home - British Columbia's portal to BC survey markers, including Canadian Benchmarks.

International Boundary Report - For the more adventurous Benchmark Hunters, a very interesting 1937 Report by the International Boundary Commission. It includes information on boundary monuments, as well as information on now obscure Benchmarks related to border monuments. Other than by serendipity, few would likely find many of these benchmarks without the aid of this book.

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Geodiscover Alberta looks awfully cool!

 

Here are some pages I've found useful for Canadian historical waymarks, from the general to the specific:

 

The Canadian Encyclopedia - an encyclopedia of all things Canadian:  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/

 

Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Home – Dictionary of Canadian Biography (biographi.ca)

 

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada - Good info on architects of historic buildings: Introduction | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 

 

https://www.archiseek.com/ is an Irish architecture website, but they have worldwide info also, and it has been useful for the history of some Canadian buildings . There is a search bar buried at the bottom left corner  of their pages (I almost missed it!), or you can do a Google search with the 

site:archiseek.com 

tag at the end (e.g. Ottawa site:archiseek.com to find all Ottawa buildings).

 

 

Peel's Prairie Provinces - all kinds of digitized historical info (including postcards) about Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Eventually it will all be at Internet Archive: Peel's Prairie Provinces : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

However, Peel's is  currently migrating from the old University of Alberta website; it isn't all at Internet Archive yet, so you may wish to start with Peel Prairie Provinces - UofA Library (ualberta.ca)

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