Geolocation?
I do not understand geolocation.
The word didn’t appear in our readings, so I googled it and found definitions from various sources that essentially amounted to this: geolocation is locating objects based on their geographic situation. Which basically sounds like mapping, ie, placing a “pin” on a map in google maps. But we just did that last week, so I don’t feel like that’s what we’re being asked to do this week. Also, the syllabus mentions geolocated images and videos and I completely don’t understand how those things can be geolocated. If we watch a video on the internet, it’s on the internet and therefore not geographical, so there’s no way to map it other than perhaps to map the location of the IP from which it was uploaded. So I guess I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to be doing and I’ll be happy to do it once I understand but right now I’m stuck.
For my secondary source, I picked the history section of the website for Babcock lumber company, which is the parent company for the saw mill in Tucker County, West Virginia. The section does not mentioned the Alderton family, but it does refer to the expansion that lead to the establishment of the mill in question. It’s not a scholarly article, but it’s something.
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