Nice view from my temporary office over Leigh St. #RVA

🚲🌊 When the James River and your evening commute become one (Riverside Dr between Rockfalls Dr and the Z Dam).

Today's combined Sewage Overflow map AKA "Richmond's Map of Shame" — 12 of 25 outflows currently spewing our raw wastewater into the James and Gillies Creek. apps.emnet.net/richmond-pub...

We're one step away from a beautiful Mayo Bridge... #RVA richmondbizsense.com/2025/02/11/l...

Latoya Gray-Sparks gave an excellent (and heartbreaking) talk about Urban Renewal history in #RVA tonight. RPL Memory Lab was a great host and put together these fantastic Sanborn map displays with monopoly pieces to show homes razed for Gilpin Court, I-95, and the downtown expressway.

A group is trying to effectively sabotage the Fall Line trail’s path through Bryan Park. Sign BikeWalk RVA’s petition here to tell City leadership you support the trail! www.sportsbackers.org/program/bike...

I dabbled in some local reporting last night. Moral of the story — RVA311.com is fully staffed and improving. The more folks log on and upvote requests the better it works.

New music from Butcher Brown coming fresh out of #RVA might be the only thing keeping me sane after two weeks of the new admin’s cruelty and bullshit. youtu.be/2cs0CKylxPI?...

Ever since the @richmondkickers.bsky.social brought out the old '90s logo in 2022 I've been toying with ideas for a new crest that brings back that OG soccer feel in a fresh way. I'm not sure I cracked the code but I wish the new crest went in this direction instead of old-timey baseball.

Wild ice falls in #RVA — at the back of the quarry loop off of the Buttermilk trail. These cliffs seem to have the perfect mix of runoff (possibly spring water?!) and no sun.

Noon press conference on #RVA water crisis: • All nine water zones pressurized!!! • 1st test began in the last hour • 2nd test 16 hours later needed to lift boil advisory • Mayor optimistic for Friday or early Saturday lift • "Absolutely feel free to take quick showers" • "Okay to wash dishes"

3 actions to consider on day 4 of #RVA water crisis: Volunteer to hand out drinking water (3hr): www.cfengage.org/search (search "Water distribution") Take the MapRVA survey, pinpoint outages (30 sec): survey123.arcgis.com/share/79b3f9... Donate to test Wayside Spring (30 sec): gofund.me/022c8fa4

#RVA Mayor's press conference on Richmond's water crisis just wrapped. Mixed news: • Two pumps now online after stops and starts overnight • Cautiously optimistic water service to return today • Boil-water advisory likely to continue for 48 hours • RPS likely to remain closed (somewhat unclear)

Sanborn detail of #Detroit, 1949 — Carstens Elementary School — one of 195 schools closed in Detroit between 2000 and 2015. This section of the city's east side suffered from heavy abandonment, typically attributed to white flight and auto industry consolidation. historicdetroit.org/buildings/ca...

Sanborn detail of #Baltimore 1952: "Public School No 176" aka "Francis M Wood [School] For Handicapped Colored Children". This block and ~20 others would be cleared to build West Baltimore's "Highway to Nowhere". Read more: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/busi...

If this is how Disney feels then they should sell ABC and any another entity reporting on the administration. I guess journalism isn’t “family-friendly” 🐀 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...

Infuriating that Disney and their legions of lawyers didn’t fight this harder . The mouse is not committed to journalism — it’s one of the big reasons I left Nat Geo. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/b...

I’m a big fan of these candy cane flex posts now bringing some cheer to Blanton Ave 🎄🚲

Sanborn detail of Richmond, VA 1950 — Jackson Ward. I am so intrigued by this so-called "Cave" street that cut diagonally across the center block here. Was there an actual cave at some point? This block, like so many around it, was razed to make way for the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike. #RVA

Screenshot from an alternate reality — the Google Maps search result for "Shockoe County". After reading today's editorial by @times-dispatch.bsky.social, I imagined this fictional county formed by the dissolved boundaries of Chesterfield, Henrico, and Richmond. Article: richmond.com/opinion/edit...

Sanborn detail of Philadelphia, PA 1950: Dock Street. It's nutty to me how much building density has changed here in 75 years. Check out this lovely history by NPS on the entombed creek beneath Dock Street and how it was pivotal to the city's founding. npshistory.com/publications...

Sanborn detail of Shreveport, LA 1963: Two annotations, "ALL BLDG'S IN THIS BLOCK REMOVED", record the destruction of a neighborhood in progress. This area, now beneath the interchange of I-20 and I-49, once contained over a hundred dwellings (marked "D" on the maps). It now has almost zero.

Obsessed with this spider style 🕷️

#30DayMapChallenge: Day 24, Only circular shapes Spoke-spider: cylinders are circular shapes, right? A map that connects the legs to a central point, based on the nearest 8 points in an underlying dataset (in this case, airports). spoke-spider.netlify.app #geosky #gischat #geography #gis

This camera operator's cheat-sheet for the NWSL final is fascinating to study for its layout and design. Really impressive amount of quickly legible info and I like the use of varying grids. Bummed the Spirit couldn't pull off the win! Seen on reddit here: www.reddit.com/r/NWSL/comme...

Sanborn detail of Tacoma, WA 1950: "Stadium High School". Initially designed in 1891 as a château on Commencement Bay, the partially constructed building was repurposed as a public school in 1906. It later appeared in the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You". oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/tacom...

Sanborn map detail of the day — Buffalo, NY 1950: "New York State Hospital for the Insane". Note the varying construction materials indicated by color fills on the interconnected buildings. This is now the Richardson Olmstead Complex and home to a boutique hotel. oldinsurancemaps.net/map/sanborn0...

Today's featured Wikipedia article is... MLS Cup 1999!? I'm in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS_Cup...

Feeling like an internet wizard are changing my Bluesky to a custom domain. The tutorial page makes it look harder than it really is. If your domain is managed by Squarespace find your Domains List then DNS Settings then add to Custom Records at the bottom for step 5: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Sanborn map detail of the day — the Valentine Meat Juice Co. Richmond Abbatoir in 1952. Yes that Valentine. This site is now home to the Richmond Animal Control and Care building on Chamberlayne Ave. More maps here: oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/richm...

The Carillon is (mostly) open! #RVA

I made some maps for a new book on the history of #RVA. I’ve never produced anything for a print medium like this — just 5 shades of grey allowed! Link to get the book here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

UR #GIS Day cake competition is on point. 🕷️🗺️🥮

I will take #usmnt wins on the road in CONCACAF any day in any way.