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Cartographer at the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab • Former Graphics Editor at Nat Geo — 🗺️ Map Nerd • 🚲 Bike Commuter • 🚎 Transit Advocate • 🇺🇸 USMNT / 🦘 Richmond Kickers / Fulham FC ⚽️ fan
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Nice view from my temporary office over Leigh St. #RVA

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

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...

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

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.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

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?...

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

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"

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

#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)

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

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...

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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...

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 181 days ago • 4 comments

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...

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment