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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 25/08/2026

Big news! OldInsuranceMaps.net is now a @osmus.bsky.social Charter Project! This means we are affiliated with their non-profit status, and @rileydchampine.com will be joining me (@mradamcox.bsky.social) on the Advisory Committee. It's a big step! More here: openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08...

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OldInsuranceMaps.net is now a Charter Project!

OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in a...

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Darren Wiens @darrenwiens.github.io · 16/08/2026

Anyway, I made a font with all the quadkeys as ligatures. So, here, I type "03032" to incrementally get to the quadkey showing Nova Scotia, and you could do the same for any location on Earth. First, it shows glyph "0", then the "03" ligature, and so on until the "03032" ligature. Pretty neat, huh?

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just published a new blog post about adding the Helmert transformation as an option during georeferencing. Hoping this can spur some "best practices" discussions as well!

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TK_Wharton @tkw.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One of the top historical maps of New Orleans, Ogden, 1829 Map of City of New Orleans respectively dedicated to General Andrew Jackson and his brave companions in arms 8th of Jany 1815. I'll try to break down more about this great map in coming days; It says so much about a pivotal moment

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 31/05/2026

Recap: May Georeference-a-thons in New Orleans: blog.oldinsurancemaps.net/2026/05/1…

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 30/04/2026

Georeference-a-thons! HistoryForge (New Orleans), UMD, and UIUC: blog.oldinsurancemaps.net/2026/04/3…

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 23/04/2026

Really looking forward to seeing all these small cities/towns laid out together in Yesterdays of the Inland Empire!

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 03/04/2026

Last month I presented at #Code4Lib: www.youtube.com/live/6nBJ… While preparing the slides, 10 minutes was feeling really short (especially for a new audience) but I reworked some things and I think it’s actually the best introductory talk about the project I’ve given!

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 02/03/2026

Presenting tomorrow at Code4Lib! Details in Newsletter: Winter (pt 2): blog.oldinsurancemaps.net/2026/03/0…

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is so incredibly fun to explore

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 17/02/2026

🐟🦈 tracking students: @actnetwork.bsky.social and @maracoos.bsky.social are accepting applications for their Student Conference Award through 9 March: $1k for travel to a conference of your choosing. Apply today (or tomorrow, just before March 9th)! theactnetwork.com/student-conf...

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Student Conference Award – The Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry Network

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thanks @willpooley.bsky.social for this generous reading - @danielwilson.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social & I are so glad this is resonating with historians!

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Wrote a little thing about work my class is doing this semester in a historically Black cemetery in town. Yet major map providers don't even show the cemetery space on their maps. Our work is trying to fill that cartographic void. www.communitymappinglab.org/blog/the-abs...

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The Absented Presence of Brooklyn Cemetery

Jerry Shannon This spring, I'm teaching my Community GIS course again. This is a studio/fieldwork based class that pairs literature on community geography and critical GIS with some kind of community....

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Wrote an overview of a feature in OldInsuranceMaps.net, something I hope to do more of in the coming year. There are a lot of novel capabilities just kind of buried in the app at this point. Also I finally have a good method for efficiently making animated gifs. This bodes well for future posts.....

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EvolvingWild @evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com · 30/11/2025

We're 12 followers away from 10k followers. I want people to like us. Get us to 10k followers and I'll post that Lil B song I always used to do on the other site when we'd reach round-number follower tiers.

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Took the bus today, stopped in at my favorite boutique oil refinery

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OldInsuranceMaps @oldinsurancemaps.net · 06/10/2025

From some recent activity, here's a rare but good example (from Worcester Mass.) of where the Thin Plate Spline transformation makes sense for #georeferencing #sanborn maps. Curved roads out in space are sometimes drawn without good scale and need extra distortion oldinsurancemaps.net/layer/72727

A georeferenced Sanborn map sheet that shows significant distortion (Worcester, Mass., 1950, Vol. 3, p 343 (partial). The map has a few blocks but is distorted near the area of a curved road on the east side of the page.

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If you are in the New Orleans area, come to one of our upcoming Georeference-a-thons at Second Line Brewing! Tuesday evenings, the 16th and 23rd. RSVP form here: tiny.cc/georef-2025. We'll be focusing on 1895 Duncan Plaza area and hearing from archaeologists who did work there over the summer.

Flyer for two community georeferencing events: Sept 16th & 23rd, at Second Line Brewing in New Orleans, LA.

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This started as a "here's a link to a recent talk recording" but I ended up repurposing some slides and writing more about how the warping process works within the system.

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Nick Santos @nickrsan.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

Are there any options for running a serverless patterned STAC endpoint? Or even better, a fully static STAC-metadata store that requires the client to do the filtering? I see that github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi can use a parquet storage as its backend, which seems like it could get […]

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'll be doing a nice long talk this Wednesday morning at 11am central time, open to everyone! Sign up through the link.

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 09/07/2025

1895 Hull-House wage and nationality maps, welcome to your forever home!

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Chipped away at this over the last couple weeks, 425gb off the server and up in the air. Really throws the door open for future possibilities...

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📣 The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar for the 2025-26 academic year! 🧑‍🎓 Learn more about position compensation, benefits, and requirements here: healthyregions.org/2025/06/06/p... 📅 Apply by 11:59 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The six-year Sanborn copyright case has been settled! Started with EDR (now LightBox) suing ERIS and right away ERIS counter-sued with a lot of claims. Looks like ERIS came up big in the settlement with a valid license to distribute all copyrighted Sanborn maps: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20....

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ERIS Information Inc. Sees Resolution to Longstanding Lawsuit

EDR and ERIS have announced the resolution of their dispute and lawsuit involving EDR’s claims of copyright infringement and ERIS’s claims of antitrust viola...

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · 02/06/2025

I'm on a mission to find indie game developers using OpenStreetMap! We want to feature their work at @osmus.bsky.social. How can I connect with this community?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 19/05/2025

We spent an entire paddling season researching and paddling across the Twin Cities to create this guide. The Star Tribune has never put out a guide this comprehensive. Get out on the water, people. It's really the best thing you can do this summer. www.startribune.com/canoe-kayak-...

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚀 The SDOH & Place Project Data Discovery App Now LIVE! 📊🌍 To make finding #SDOH and place data easier, we present the SDOH & Place Data Discovery platform. Check out our Alpha release and provide feedback as we refine over the next few months. View the app live here: sdohplace.org/search

Screenshot of the SDOH & Place Data Discovery Platform.

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ICPSR @icpsr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. Learn more at datalumos.org. #DataPreservation #OpenData #SocialScience

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Learn more at www.datalumos.org

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We plan to use @overturemaps.bsky.social Places data as reference layers in a soon-to-be-released web application, and I would love to link to more documentation about (and gain a better understanding of) the "confidence" field. Any pointers on where to look, beyond the official docs? #gischat

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#maplibrejs afficionados: Any way around this messy labeling? (numbers 32, 62, and 50) I'm thinking there isn't, as the label layer is on top of the cluster layer, and you can actually see the exact same behavior in the official docs example: maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-...

snippet of map interface with clusters, some of which overlap. in some obvious cases, the labels from one cluster that is being overlapped by another are shown on top of the overlapping cluster.

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚀 Data Discovery App 📊🔍 Easily explore datasets with structured metadata! To stay up-to-date, keep an eye on our socials, or sign up to our newsletter: go.illinois.edu/SDOH-SUBSCRIBE #MetadataMatters #DataDiscovery #SDOH #OpenData #FoodAccess #PublicHealth #CommunityPlanning

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Introducing the SDOH & Place Data Discovery App—helping users access key SDOH and health equity data from sources like CDC, PLACES, and Tree Canopy. 🚀 Alpha release coming soon! Stay updated via our socials or newsletter.https://go.illinois.edu/SDOH-SUBSCRIBE #SDOH #PublicHealth #HealthEquity #Data

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thanks to @mradamcox.bsky.social for helping us set this up. Oldinsurancemaps.net is a easy platform for georeferencing with a group, especially those with minimal GIS experience.

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OldInsuranceMaps.net

A crowdsourcing site for creating and viewing georeferenced mosaics of historical Sanborn fire insurance maps

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Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

First Community Mapping Lab mapathon of the year! Digitizing Sanborn maps for Athens in 1918 for our historical work.

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Map-a-thon on OldInsuranceMaps.net going on right now by a group at UGA, georeferencing Athens, GA in 1918. It's fun to watch as the mosaic comes together: oldinsurancemaps.net/map/sanborn0... #sanbornmaps #crowdsource #georeferencing

The overview page for the Sanborn map 1918 in Athens, GA on OldInsuranceMaps.net show a partially completed georeferenced mosaic of the city, and 9 individual pieces are currently being processed by different users.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 13/02/2025

For those interested in the Data Rescue Tracker, keep in mind that we need to know/hear from you to be able to track where data is going. That's why we have a submission form. Let us know what you have and submit it! baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/dGIFuHv...

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Data Rescue Tracker - Download Submission Form | Baserow

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · 11/02/2025

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.

Latoya Gray-Sparks presenting maps and images of north Jackson Ward before its destruction to make way for public housing in the 1940s.

A table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.

A man looks through a magnifying glass at a table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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