{"id":1071,"date":"2014-09-04T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2014-09-04T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:24:15","slug":"boone-trace-a-kentucky-frontier-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2014\/09\/04\/boone-trace-a-kentucky-frontier-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Boone Trace, A Kentucky Frontier Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1072\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/boonetrace\/_v2\/web\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screenshot-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Interactive map\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screenshot-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screenshot-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/screenshot.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draft of interactive map, try it out.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1775, Daniel Boone and his party blazed a route into Kentucky and created the pioneer settlement, Boonesborough. The Trace\u00c2\u00a0is often confused with the Wilderness Road, since they follow the same route through southern Kentucky, but the Trace predates the Wilderness Road.\u00c2\u00a0Boone established\u00c2\u00a0the main\u00c2\u00a0road through the Kentucky mountains\u00c2\u00a0and into the outer Bluegrass. That road would later be known as the Wilderness Road. Boone Trace\u00c2\u00a0leaves the Wilderness Road south of Richmond, Kentucky and travels north to\u00c2\u00a0Fort Boonesboro.<\/p>\n<p>Today, plenty of historical monuments exists\u00c2\u00a0along drivable portions of the Trace. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boonetrace1775.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BooneTrace1775.org<\/a> describes, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is a monument at the Daniel Boone Park in Flat Lick, Ky. Emblazoned on it are these words which pretty much say it all&#8211; \u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;No other trail is of greater historical significant to the founding of Kentucky and opening of the west (than Boone Trace).'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This map attempts to show a driving tour of the Trace and aggregates many of the cultural and historical destinations once could visit today. It was designed for mobile web browsers and uses Leaflet to power the interactivity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1073\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/elkhorn\/_index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-image-1073 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ECLC.jpg\" alt=\"Flash-type interactive map, 2004\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ECLC.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ECLC-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flash-type interactive map, 2004<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty amazing to see how\u00c2\u00a0much dynamic web mapping has changed over the past decade. Before, we had Flash content and static layouts, as illustrated by the Elkhorn City Living Cemetery project. Today, we have data-rich maps that take a fraction of the time to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1775, Daniel Boone and his party blazed a route into Kentucky and created the pioneer settlement, Boonesborough. The Trace\u00c2\u00a0is often confused with the Wilderness Road, since they follow the same route through southern Kentucky, but the Trace predates the Wilderness Road.\u00c2\u00a0Boone established\u00c2\u00a0the main\u00c2\u00a0road through the Kentucky mountains\u00c2\u00a0and into the outer Bluegrass. That road would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-maps","category-maps","tag-free-maps","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}