Norm, I checked with Robby and he said there is no plan to put the database online. It will be housed at the Mint when complete. Jan >Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) >From: Norm Hellmers <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Help with street location > >Jan, > >Thanks for the excellent response. I?m pleased to have what I said agreed >to by an expert, but more importantly, I?m delighted to learn that there >will finally be a French Quarter volume in the N.O. Architecture Series. I >am also pleased to learn that there will be a database of address >conversions for the French Quarter. It seems to me that at least half of >the requests that we get are for addresses in the Quarter. I would hope >that we could somehow get that database online when it is ready, even >before the FQ edition is published. Could you ask about this? Finally, >thanks for volunteering on such a worthy project. > >Norm > >--- On Wed, 8/11/10, J Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm a volunteer for the Friends of >> the Cabildo and am currently entering >> data for their upcoming book in the N.O. Architecture >> Series on The French >> Quarter. After I read this discussion, I contacted >> architect Robby >> Cangelosi who, along with Ann Masson, is researching and >> writing the FQ >> book. Here is Robby's response (with his permission) >> regarding FQ >> addresses: >> >> The NOPL online conversion which is by block is for the >> number changes from >> after the civil war to current numbers. We have a better >> conversion which I >> prepared from Sanborn maps. It is building specific. The >> person saying that >> the 1805 address do not work for the conversion charts is >> correct. That is >> what we are trying to create with the data base. By putting >> pre 1860 >> resident address and pre 1860 property owner addresses >> which we have from >> the chains of title with the current addresses, we hope to >> match pre1860 >> residents addresses from the directories with pre 1860 >> property owners >> current addresses for a pre 1860 conversion chart. This >> will only work for >> owner occupied structures but with that as a base we hope >> to fill in the >> other address with the numbers left over. >> Robby >> >> I know we all eagerly await this book so we can have more >> accurate knowledge of FQ buildings.???Jan