Final Project Update

At this stage of my project, I am working to develop my map of St. Patrick’s Ward. Most recently I have been doing some work with Google Earth’s image overlay feature. For smaller files, this feature has been excellent and has enabled me to layer several maps very accurately over my Google Earth map of the Ward. Unfortunately, some of the files I am using are enormous and therefore appear as a large red “x” over my Google Earth map. I have tried cropping my maps but for whatever reason when I press save, the image goes blank in the file thumbnail as well as the image itself. I am not sure how to remedy this issue. Compounding my frustration in that regard is the fact that the files are so large that it takes a while for my computer to do anything at all with the image. What I have been doing is, essentially, making a copy of the original file and using that copy to experiment with. If anyone knows, from that description, what I am doing wrong, any advice would be appreciated. Aside from that, the image overlay function works brilliantly for smaller files and I am very happy with the results. My map right now is my central focus as it will hopefully be quite elaborate and will take a fair amount of work. Otherwise, my website will be a medium through which I can provide the public access to materials they might not otherwise have access to. The text element will also be fairly straightforward to me as I am used to the research and writing process. Deadlines are fast approaching, so I am getting rather anxious to get what I am creating finished and on the web but there is still a lot of work to be done.