About the Project
Welcome to the Archaeology in Annapolis Web GIS site. Our goal is to provide equal access to a tool that allows you to see information about the past in Annapolis as discovered through the work done in the Archaeology In Annapolis project Archaeology in Annapolis has worked with Historic Annapolis Foundation, the Banneker Douglass Museum, the City of Annapolis, and the Maryland Historical Trust to create this array of materials for you.
The web site was created by Timothy Goddard through an internship project for his Masters of Applied Anthropology, which was granted in 2005 from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Mr Goddard's work built upon a number of other individuals who have worked on archaeology in Annapolis and had done a substantial amount of data collection and compilation used in this website. Among some of the key people are Dr. Mark Leone, Dr. John Seidel, Elizabeth Aiello, Jane Cox, and John Buchler to name a few. To all the students that have worked at the Archaeology in Annapolis field school thank you for your dedication and skill. I wish to also thank Maureen Kavanaugh for her support and input on earlier versions of this project. Support for this work was provided through grants and data supplied by the Maryland Historical Trust and the Department of Planning and Zoning of the City of Annapolis.
This web site is meant to allow access to residents of Annapolis, historians, archaeologists, historic preservationists, and any other interested people. It is our hope that this will be an evolving site responding to the needs of local citizens and the professional community. This will require input from users regarding needs and updated information.
Recognizing different levels of computer literacy is one aim of this site. In the other pages of this site are instructions and some examples for users of every level. Some tools have been made to streamline common tasks that users might want from the data available. With enough interest and input, multiple sites might be made for more specific tasks or specific themes.
The Metadata link to the left will take you to an Inventory of Available Data sets in the GIS
Please browse the Tool Buttons link to the left for information on how to use the Map Site.
Other plans include linking to the Artifact Finders Guide produced by the Archaeology in Annapolis Lab. Please indicate if you think there are other data sets that should be represented here.
Please be patient in the testing phase of this site. Occasionally the system may run slowly as we determine the amount of traffic to this site. If it is determined that enough people use this then we may move it to a larger server able to handle more traffic. In testing in-house the biggest problems tended to be incompatibility with Web Browsers. It is the most compatible with Internet Explorer. It does usually work with Netscape and Mozilla depending on the computers configuration. The first suggestion is to refresh your browser.