Rolled out a new georeferencing pipeline, so now we can even better process awesome historic maps like this one: levantrain.net/blog/how-we-... /cc @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @openstreetmap.bsky.social @python.org #railway #syria #middleeast #opensource #opendata

How we georeferenced a 1916 military map into live track

Under the hood: georeferencing a 1916 War Office map of Syria, reading it tile-by-tile at full resolution to add stations, extend a line, and catch a road we'd drawn as rail — a sharper follow-up to o...

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Gorgeous photos in this article by Leon McCarron in @noemamag.com from March 2025! www.noemamag.com/the-unlikely... #railway #middleeast #syria #jordan #saudiarabia

The Unlikely Revival Of A Great Middle Eastern Railroad | NOEMA

Could a railroad that once linked Damascus to Medina, its tracks and stations now crumbling into the desert or destroyed by treasure hunters, help stitch a fragmented region back together?

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Unlocked more data today, and from an unusual place: a single, century-old map we found online — the Palestine Railways “Diagram of Routes,” 1925. Here’s how one image became dozens of new, fully-sourced stations and routes. levantrain.net/blog/how-we-... #middleeast #railway #claude #lovable

How we turned a 1925 railway map into live data

Under the hood: using Claude Code to read a 1925 Palestine Railways map, reconcile it against our database, geolocate stations honestly, and grow the dataset — repeatably.

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What if you could travel the Middle East by train? Imagine boarding at the pyramids of Giza and stepping off on the beaches of Beirut — breakfast in Egypt, dinner in Lebanon! levantrain.net #railway #middleeast #egypt #lebanon #peacebuilding #imagination

Major map update! We now catalogue 200+ historic railway stations and 20+ routes across the Levant region with increasing levels of accuracy/confidence: levantrain.net/map #middleeast #opendata #railway #peacebuilding

Map — Levantrain

Interactive map of Levantine railway stations and routes.

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Beautiful article from 2021 by @aliciamedina.bsky.social about the history of rail in Lebanon and Syria (and a few dreamers who want to bring it back)! syriauntold.com/2021/10/29/t... #railway #lebanon #syria

Today has been a fun day! Check out Levantrain map v0.0.2 on uMap showing a first selection of 80+ historic railway stations across the Middle East. Data on GitHub and open source! umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/levan...

We’re finally on GitHub, first project is the crowdsourced map of historic railway stations and routes. github.com/Levantrain/

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Imagining High-Speed Rail for the Middle East. Levantrain has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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We will need her skillset if and when high-speed rail across the Middle East becomes a reality! Sure, the idea may seem crazy today, but one can dream... 😉 PS: Join the community and help make it happen! levantrain.net/history #middleeast #railway #orientexpress

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Imagining high-speed rail for the Middle East

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The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sawsan, who came to Germany in 2015, is likely the first Syrian woman to work as a train driver. The New Arab joined her for a day on the tracks to get an inside look at her dream job. Report by Rashad Alhindi

Hello, world! 😉