Very productive meeting with RRR and DBM on expectations and plans for the GIS cluster. The basic outcome is that we need to start by defining the exact boundaries of the areas we're focusing on (JSR should do that); then they will contact the UBC library to find out exactly which fire insurance maps are available and how accessible they are (digitized or not?), and enumerate other resources. The basic plan is to start with a modern streetmap as a base layer, then create polygons which are linked to a database of properties and a separate database of addresses; these would most likely be set up by us, and populated (at least initially) from the Properties db info we have, then supplemented with info from the city directories. The objective is to have a polygon for every incarnation of every property during the period in question, linked to any addresses and property descriptions it may have had. Properties are then linked to titles and owners, etc., as covered by our other developing plans (the XML schema among other things).