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Erica Fischer

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She is awake. She is not in acute distress. She is well-developed and well-groomed. She is not ill-appearing. Behavior is cooperative. Thought content normal.

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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 7h
Yes, that's the classic!
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 7h
Now it can export GeoTIFF and KML too, which should help with interoperability
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12h
Thanks! The nice thing about doing it outside of felt is not feeling constrained by all the existing element manipulation gestures
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12h
I feel bad for making up a new format for the anchor points, but the world file is at least supported by gdal
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12h
Thanks! Claude is pretty amazing
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12h
Where do you view your warped maps? Should I add kmz or geotiff export or something else?
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 13h
Thank you! Mapwarper is great, but I kept clicking the wrong thing in the UI with the two simultaneous views.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 15h
Love this! So much easier than Google Earth. Here's the unbuilt Bushwick Expy, I-78 as it would have been signed (continuing across Manhattan on the Lower Manhattan Expy). Note the branch to Hunts Point and the 3rd Queens-Midtown Tunnel tube.
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 18h
Now also directly accessible at e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet/...
e-n-f.github.io
Rubbersheet
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 18h
Hopefully a more meaningful example: www.flickr.com/photos/walki..., which is the georeferenced version of flickr.com/photos/walki.... Download the "original size" PNG and drag it onto the map and you can change the anchor points
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Ben Zotto @bzotto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My thanks to the @computerhistory.bsky.social for publishing this book excerpt on the blog. Couldn‘t have written such a detailed book without the CHM. computerhistory.org/blog/sphere-...
computerhistory.org
Sphere: A Pioneering Early Microcomputer, Rediscovered
A new book made possible by CHM research reveals the untold story of Utah’s Sphere Corporation, makers of one of the original desktop all-in-one PCs. IT WAS DECEMBER 1975, and the future was being man...
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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New blog post
oaklandgeology.com
Making of the tidal canal, first half
The great project to build the Oakland harbor in the inlet of San Antonio Creek — the Estuary — began with an act of Congress in 1873. It would rely on redirecting natural processes to …
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Vibecoded the map rubbersheeting tool I've wished I had for ages e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet
Recreated 1972 BART map, warped to reflect actual station and bridge locations
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks! I was thinking of them as swashes, but maybe that's not the right term
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OK, I think it's close enough! I'm calling it "Hit Parade." Go title some songs! github.com/e-n-f/hit-pa...
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
With q, X, and Z also in hand, I have originals of all the letters now
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fortunately there is other evidence for the j, which also rolls the date of the font's first known appearance back to 1904
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My own collection has let me down, but thanks to ebay, I now know what the "Q" and "j" look like (Or maybe not really, since the B and P in Banjo Pete are from a different font, so the j might also be.)
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No, I have been trying to find a name for it for years, and have never figured it out
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’ve seen it in use as far back as 1915, when it would have looked much more contemporary. But still common into the 1960s
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unemployment project #1: dragging the weird unnamed midcentury-but-much-older-looking-than-that ornamental sheet music title font into the digital age
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are numerous elevators
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for spotting it!
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gonna do a thread of cutting room floor stuff re: my new Loren Rex Cameron feature … bsky.app/profile/sand...
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, it appears that I have joined the ranks of the laid-off. Anyone know of anything interesting going on in geo?
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Those were some fantastic button-copy "5"s being tested in the UK in 1960 archive.org/details/sim_...
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The MUTCD lower cases other than Series E are a digital-era addition, unlike the Palo Alto signs which have been there for many decades, and I think they made some bad aesthetic decisions when they did it. The Palo Alto "w" is not offensively wide like the official Series D "w", for instance.
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still want to know where the narrow lower case on the "Business District" and "Bayshore Fwy" signs on Page Mill Road/Oregon Expressway came from. Was there a whole family of California lower cases out there somewhere?
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 1951 California report that established the lower case of the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs standardalphabet.com/standard-alp... cc @aresluna.org @bzotto.bsky.social
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I didn't realize that my phone had been counting my steps every day for the last 10 years, but now I know how much the pandemic reduced my baseline level of physical activity, and how much getting a dog has increased it again
scatterplot of daily steps recorded by date
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cover of "Chicago Orchard (Douglas) Airport" master plan prepared for the City of Chicago, Martin H. Kennelly, mayor. Detail of an image from the master plan showing airport and runways.
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Except that retaking it now also puts me in California
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm pretty sure the NYT dialect quiz from 2013 put me solidly in Indiana
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have apparently fully assimilated to the west coast
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sorry to miss you!
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sorry about my bad timing. I am actually arriving on the 11th, but kind of late. Maybe I could move it earlier? (Is my email getting to you?)
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I will be in Chicago (Sep 12-13) and Indianapolis (Sep 14-16). Who wants to meet up?
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Data art: still a thing
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This art was put here for all to enjoy
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/08/2026
youtu.be/1ju4t0XM_ig?...
youtu.be
Footage of two and three-car BART trains from the first months of train service in 1972
YouTube video by BART
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I also have a hard time believing that "D" is an actual segmented display
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I think I understand why front yards exist now: because people walk dogs
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Big Free Library
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11/08/2026
I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?
An old dot-matrix display at the platform of Bay Area Rapid Transit near San FranciscoA license plate in TaiwanA house number in San FranciscoAn old street sign in Szczecin, set in a distinctive typeface
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Baking powder
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
41th
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No idea! I just ran across this in the wild
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Golden Gate Tunnel bumper sticker
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OMG. The drawings of Frederick Law Olmstead (Central Park, National Zoo, Mountain View Cemetery …) are archived on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/olmst...
Vintage planning map of Central Park, New York, NY.Vintage map of the National Zoo.Vintage planning map for Mountain View Cemetery, Piedmont, CA.
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
More recently, they've renamed it to Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices, which doesn't have the same ring to it
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