my place

exploring the Library's place-based collections

https://slv.wraggelabs.com

https://wraggelabs.com

https://glam-workbench.net

why bother?

the challenge

https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/wikimedia/wikifest-2025

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

17,809 photos

1,598 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-workbench.net/state-library-victoria/sands-macdougall-directories/

newspapers

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

Trove Places (circa 2014)

4,028 titles

836 places

then

now

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/

https://slv-places-481615284700.australia-southeast1.run.app

abbreviations

image snippets!

what's next?

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

SLV Lab: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au

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