Thanks for stopping in.

You’re just touching the tip of the iceberg here, and make an excellent point–specific to mapping and GIS, but also more generally. There is vast potential for presenting information about the battle and the Park online. The tools are there.

I don’t know that the Park has the staff resources, however. Or the mission, particularly.

For the moment, I’m guessing this kind of project will be up to AotW, Virtual Antietam, Photographic Tour, and/or other ambitious individuals, consortia, or teams (to be named later).

In the current case, it does not appear that the Park Service meant this new web look to be a clean-slate redesign. There are some new items, but this is largely old wine in a new, easier opening bottle.

How about you? It sounds like you know something about the subject – how about getting busy? :)

BD

Would be nice to have a shapefile with the monuments. I assume they have, or could easily get, accurate GPS coordinates for all of them. NPS could work something out with USGS I would hope.