Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 7hNow it can export GeoTIFF and KML too, which should help with interoperability 020
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12hThanks! The nice thing about doing it outside of felt is not feeling constrained by all the existing element manipulation gestures 020
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12hI feel bad for making up a new format for the anchor points, but the world file is at least supported by gdal 000
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 12hWhere do you view your warped maps? Should I add kmz or geotiff export or something else? 100
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 13hThank you! Mapwarper is great, but I kept clicking the wrong thing in the UI with the two simultaneous views. 210
Reposted by Erica FischerAndrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 15hLove 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. 271
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 18hNow also directly accessible at e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet/...e-n-f.github.ioRubbersheet 210
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 18hHopefully 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 100
Reposted by Erica FischerBen Zotto @bzotto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My 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.orgSphere: A Pioneering Early Microcomputer, RediscoveredA 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... 102
Reposted by Erica FischerAndrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 12/10/2026New blog postoaklandgeology.comMaking of the tidal canal, first halfThe 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 … 082
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Vibecoded the map rubbersheeting tool I've wished I had for ages e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet 44614
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thanks! I was thinking of them as swashes, but maybe that's not the right term 010
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026OK, I think it's close enough! I'm calling it "Hit Parade." Go title some songs! github.com/e-n-f/hit-pa... 2102
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026With q, X, and Z also in hand, I have originals of all the letters now 160
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fortunately there is other evidence for the j, which also rolls the date of the font's first known appearance back to 1904 120
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My 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.) 120
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No, I have been trying to find a name for it for years, and have never figured it out 010
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ve seen it in use as far back as 1915, when it would have looked much more contemporary. But still common into the 1960s 220
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unemployment project #1: dragging the weird unnamed midcentury-but-much-older-looking-than-that ornamental sheet music title font into the digital age 2364
Reposted by Erica FischerSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gonna do a thread of cutting room floor stuff re: my new Loren Rex Cameron feature … bsky.app/profile/sand... 224268
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, it appears that I have joined the ranks of the laid-off. Anyone know of anything interesting going on in geo? 6144
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Those were some fantastic button-copy "5"s being tested in the UK in 1960 archive.org/details/sim_... 030
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 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. 031
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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? 291
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 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 2315
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I 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 0130
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Except that retaking it now also puts me in California 110
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm pretty sure the NYT dialect quiz from 2013 put me solidly in Indiana 100
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sorry 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?) 000
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I will be in Chicago (Sep 12-13) and Indianapolis (Sep 14-16). Who wants to meet up? 221
Reposted by Erica FischerIan @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/08/2026youtu.be/1ju4t0XM_ig?...youtu.beFootage of two and three-car BART trains from the first months of train service in 1972YouTube video by BART 181
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I also have a hard time believing that "D" is an actual segmented display 010
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think I understand why front yards exist now: because people walk dogs 040
Reposted by Erica FischerMarcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11/08/2026I 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? 72262121
Reposted by Erica FischerRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026OMG. The drawings of Frederick Law Olmstead (Central Park, National Zoo, Mountain View Cemetery …) are archived on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/olmst... 1123
Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026More recently, they've renamed it to Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices, which doesn't have the same ring to it 110