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Summary Of State Grants For Mine Mapping - Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia received a grant of $317,000. They utilized the grant to conduct the following activities:
- Make public service announcements asking for public cooperation and donation of maps. Virginia conducted a number of outreach activities related to mine maps. They issued a press release which generated articles in five newspapers in southwestern Virginia: Dickenson County Star, Coalfield Progress, Lebanon News, Virginia Mountaineer, Bristol Herald Courier. They also conducted interviews with WCYB-TV5, Bristol, and the Roanoke Times. They posted a request for pre-1980 mine maps on the DMME website and manned a display booth at the Eastern Coal Council Meeting.
- Scan and digitally catalog mine maps from state and federal government sources. Virginia cataloged mine maps from a variety of sources, including the following:
DMME Charlottesville: 2,515 paper maps scanned and cataloged.
Library of Virginia: 1,865 maps on microfilm reels scanned and cataloged.
DMME Overlay/Underlay Collection: 821 paper maps scanned and cataloged.
OSM Repository: 3,533 previously scanned microfilm maps cataloged.
DMME Charlottesville: 21 regional mine maps scanned and cataloged.
DMME Active Mine files: 947 maps scanned and cataloged (this effort is continuing).
DMME legacy coalbed mapping files: cataloging approximately 4000 mine maps scanned in the 1990s (this effort is continuing).
- Scan and digitally catalog mine maps from collaborating coal companies and private collections, including the following:
Clinchfield - 140 maps, Penn Virginia - 424 maps, Teaco - 960 maps, Rapoca - 2,816 maps, Teaco - 805 maps, Jewell Smokeless - 407 maps,
Glamorgan - 26 maps, Harman Mining - 60 maps, Pittston - 786 maps, Bridge Coal - 47 maps, Red River - 201 maps, Hughes (private collection), Powell Mountain - 1,210 maps, Dewey (private collection) - 559 maps, Dulcimer
Land - 622 maps, Opal Thomas (private collection) - 37 maps, Thompson and Litton - 1,227, Coal Tax Credit - 228 maps, Eric Price (private collection) - 306 maps, Knox Creek - 13 maps, United Coal Company - 334 maps.
- Scan and digitally catalog microfilm mine maps from DMME. Maps already on file with DMME were scanned and cataloged. They included 4,023 maps on microfilm reels located in Charlottesville and 1,232 maps on aperture cards located in Big Stone Gap.
- Geo-reference mine maps and place data from maps (mine footprint, mine name, coalbed, etc.) into Geographic Information System and relational database. This work is ongoing. So far, 5,923 mine maps have been geo-referenced and another 4,581 mine footprints have been digitized and entered into a relational database.
- Develop digital mapping standards and protocols, including metadata. Procedures have been developed and documented for all digital mapping tasks. Documents are stored on a network folder for staff access and are updated as procedures are improved. Procedures have been developed, tested, and implemented for uploading XML metadata records for web-based map layers to a relational database. Metadata records have been developed for most geospatial data layers and metadata maintenance, viewing and search application have been rolled out to DMME staff.
- Complete quality assurance/quality control of intermediate and final products. Enhanced data integrity and security rules were implemented and enforced during data entry. An ongoing effort is being made to utilize database queries to check for data entry errors and to check spatial data against Virginia Base Mapping data (digital aerial photography).
- Create a web-based query system for accessing coal mapping information system. A browser-based search tool developed for querying legacy mine and mine map databases has been developed. The search tool and web-based mapping application has been rolled out to the DMME staff. All geospatial data are displayed in a web-based mapping application linked to the mine and mine map database and metadata. Layers are being updated periodically as geo-referencing and digitizing of mine footprints continue.
Although the mine map information is not currently available on the internet for general use, additional information on the Virginia Mine Mapping project can be found on the following website:
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