What's a Geocoder?

We are making great progress! Our Keweenaw Time Traveler team has finished creating the "geocoder" for 1949. This will allow visitors to automatically map historical information about people, events, and places to the exact location in the Keweenaw around 1949. Look at all the buildings and structures we have outlined! We have scanned and georeferenced more than 1200 maps and located more than 66,500 houses, commercial buildings, theaters, train stations, shaft houses, smelters, mills and other mine locations. We are working quickly on 1942, 1928, and 1917…