This lab helped me appreciate the amount of time and detail that can go into a Digital humanities project. I also learned about the precision required for a lot of DH projects. This is because as I continued to add more points on the map, the map continued to augment and stretch. I think to really do this project successfully, especially for maps that have some curvature to them, it is necessary to be very thorough, as a single point can augment the whole map.
I think some potential problems of georeferencing include the fact that anyone can contribute, which means that a poor job may be undone by another user, or on the positive side, the fact that a poor job can be undone by another user. There are definitely downsides and upsides to having something be open for multiple people to work on and edit. I can compare the map that I made to the maps of other users, which can potentially inspire me to put more effort in, or just appreciate the work that others have done.
Once I have the map, I can more easily navigate the map that I georeferenced, because I can be more confident in its accuracy, after georeferencing it and having my own impact on how the map looks. To be fair, I am not the most confident in my map, because it looks a little wonky, and it doesn’t particularly line up with the world map beneath it. I think part of the reason it is not the cleanest is because it was difficult for me to find points in the center of the map, because most of the distinct geological features, such as coastlines, and the edges of land masses were on the edges of the map itself. The center was definitely stretched in a way that made the map less accurate.
