my place

exploring the SLV's place-based collections

https://slides.com/wragge/local-studies-2026

Follow along

https://slv.wraggelabs.com

https://wraggelabs.com

what can you tell me about...

• my house
• my street
• my area
• my town

?

• parish maps
• Committee for Urban Action photos
• Sands & Mac directories
• other digitised map collections such as:
  • Mahlstedt fire insurance
  • MMBW

collections

parish maps

size

scale & coords

mix metadata with some high-school maths

looks familiar?

all the maps!

https://github.com/StateLibraryVictoria-SLVLAB/geo-maps-residency

Committee for Urban Action collection

https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE20818336&mode=browse

Alexandra Parade, Fitzroy, 
from Brunswick Street to Fitzroy Street 
- south side.

street

suburb

intersections

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2gv4

OpenStreetMap API

getting closer...

Bell Street, between Fisher Lane and Fitzroy Street

Intersection of Mills Road and Binghams Road, Harcourt

Ivan Street, Fitzroy, from Park Street to end

18,603 photos

1,731 sections of road

https://slv.wraggelabs.com/cua/

Sands & MacDougall's directories

https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=61SLV_INST:SLV&collectionId=81213035910007636

152 volumes

https://glam-databases.net

https://glam-databases.net/vic-smd/

newspapers

https://wraggelabs.com/trove-places/

Trove Places (circa 2014)

4,028 titles

836 places

then

now

https://slv.wraggelabs.com/newspapers/

georeferenced maps

https://allmaps.org

added by userscript

https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/

https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html

https://slv.wraggelabs.com/geomaps/

my place

https://slv.wraggelabs.com/myplace/

149 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

https://glam-databases.net/slv-spatial/

https://glam-databases.net

https://glam-databases.net/gni/

what's next?

my SLV experiments: https://slv.wraggelabs.com

my blog: https://updates.timsherratt.org

me: https://timsherratt.au