Join us this Wednesday, August 19 with the Capital Trail Foundation for a trail mapping event! 5-8pm in Shockoe Slip, details at link below. Bring a laptop if you'd like. 🗺️ https://maprva.org/events/

Reddit user RVAPetrichor embroidered the Brookland Park neighborhood of Richmond 😍 🧶 https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/1tgr7ag/brookland_park_embroidery/

RE: https://en.osm.town/@maprva/116516861799282700 Today!

MapRVA@maprva.org · 4mo ago

Interested in the different technologies surveilling you? Join us Thursday, May 7 in Shockoe Bottom #RVA; we'll survey and map all of the different surveillance types in the area: at least two different types of ALPRs and two different types of gunshot detectors! https://maprva.org/events

Interested in the different technologies surveilling you? Join us Thursday, May 7 in Shockoe Bottom #RVA; we'll survey and map all of the different surveillance types in the area: at least two different types of ALPRs and two different types of gunshot detectors! https://maprva.org/events

Join us at 6:30 eastern tonight, April 23, to chat with LaToya Gray-Sparks from Virginia Department of Historic Resources about their efforts to map Virginia's communities! https://osmcal.org/event/4681/

MapRVA Virtual Map & Yap with LaToya Gray-Sparks, VA DHR

MapRVA Virtual Map & Yap with LaToya Gray-Sparks, VA DHR, 23rd April 18:30 – 19:30 at Virtual in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Join us virtually as we chat about mapping Richmond's underserved neighborhoods with LaToya Gray-Sparks, Virginia…

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Cemetery mapping was a blast! Who knew so many former flames of Edgar Allen Poe are there? New graves added to @openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/181024243 Check our website for future events! https://maprva.org/events

Join us as we map Shockoe Hill Cemetery tomorrow! We'll be there from 6:30-7:30, mapping some famous "residents", and taking street-level imagery to allow people to take in the historic space from their own home. https://osmcal.org/event/4680/

Shockoe Hill Cemetery mapping with MapRVA

Shockoe Hill Cemetery mapping with MapRVA, 7th April 18:30 – 19:30 at Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Meet any time after 6PM. We plan to take some street-level imagery, place some photos…

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Come join our meet up tomorrow, March 12, 6pm at New York Deli in Carytown! We've got some fun things to chat about, like how we should organize ourselves moving forward.

Virtual "Map & Yap" meetup is happening TONIGHT, Feb 26th, at 6pm. Anyone is welcome, we hope to see you there! 🗺️ https://cwm.zoom.us/j/81451882713

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FYI: Dr. Keener will not be present to give his talk about Surveillance Inequality at tonight's meetup. However due to the last minute nature of this change, we will still be meeting to chat all about mapping surveillance in OpenStreetMap. Dr. Keener & his co-author Dr. Finn will still be […]

Incredibly heartbreaking. He gave @maprva.org a tour just 3 weeks ago, sending his staff home and staying behind so that we could spend just a *little more* time looking around. His joy of the collection was contagious. Infuriating that we have another pedestrian killed by a car.

The Richmonder@richmonder.org · 8mo ago

Valentine director Bill Martin died on Sunday

RE: https://en.osm.town/@weeklyOSM/115757361079892677 yesterdays.maprva.org was featured in issue 804 of @weeklyOSM !

Field trip to @thevalentinerva.bsky.social today with @maprva.org to see some amazing historic pictures of Richmond, VA. They also pulled a Sanborn fire insurance map for us, which was kept up to date into the 80s by pasting pieces of paper with new/removed construction over the old map.

OldinsuranceMaps.net is such an amazing and thoughtful tool. So easy to georeference these maps and look back in time. Do yourself a favor and go poke around. @maprva.org's Yesterdays project would have been impossible without it. yesterdays.maprva.org

Adam Cox@mradamcox.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.....

Some armchair Flock hunts on OpenStreetMap -- Gilpin is, in fact, littered with RPD Flock devices. This is 3 within 10 ft of each other! @maprva.org #RVA

Gwen Otwell@onetofu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interesting that the map of these ravens and the RPDs stated "hotspots" don't always overlap Gilpin doesn't seem to have any. This was the next public housing neighborhood redevelopment that would have displaced the majority of residents based on the original plan.

Flood of 1936 over Mayo Island, including the old ball park. yesterdays.maprva.org/19340/ #rva @maprva.org

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Georeference tool has been renamed to **YESTERDAYS**, and we've been squashing bugs left and right. Explore nearly 30k images, 2.8k of which we've placed on a map. Our collections span from the Civil War to COVID-19 and everything in between. https://yesterdays.maprva.org

Went cycling on the (recently-opened) Ashland-Henrico portion of the Fall Line Trail outside of Richmond, VA with @maprva.org last weekend. We took 360 imagery the whole way. If you'd like to see the whole 7 miles from your couch, click below!

Mapillary

Street-level imagery, powered by collaboration and computer vision.

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RVA area peeps: @maprva.org will be leisurely cycling the new Henrico-Ashland portion of the Fall Line Trail next Saturday Nov 8. We'd like YOU to join! Plan is to meet behind the VCC Target ~11a, bike 7 mi to Ashland, eat, look at historic houses, and head back. DM/reply for more details!

Friendly reminder that our next meetup will be next Wed Oct 29th at Main Library, 6pm. We'll talk cemetery mapping! Including a presentation from Beth Zizzamia of the University of Richmond! In other words, it's going to be a good one 😀 hope to see you there!🎃 👻

Friendly reminder that our next meetup will be next Wed Oct 29th at Main Library, 6pm. We'll talk cemetery mapping! Including a presentation from Beth Zizzamia of the University of Richmond! In other words, it's going to be a good one 😀 hope to see you there!🎃 👻

In fun hyper-local information and mapping, @maprva.org (@trailsta.sh) has mapped the RVA gun hole on @openhistoricalmap.org... and also added a page in @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social. www.openhistoricalmap.org/node/2140307... www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136514...

Node: ‪‪Richmond Gun Hole‬ [ – 2024]‬ (‪2140307065‬)

OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 10mo ago

The Gun Hole is not lost. It was preserved by Richmonders and is headed to The Valentine.

Our next meetup is TONIGHT at 6pm, and it's VIRTUAL! Can't wait to see you. https://cwm.zoom.us/j/87542434646

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MapRVA has a lot in store for October! Visit maprva.org for more details. Hope to see you there 🗺️

We are proud to have our latest project, Georeference Tool, featured in the Church Hill Lookout! https://www.chlookout.com/p/like-google-street-view-but-for-richmond-history

Like Google Street View, but for Richmond history

Plus: Commemorating a century since the Church Hill Tunnel collapse!

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What a fantastic first week of our Georeference Tool! We already have over 500 image georeferences across Richmond, and we're working on importing new datasets! Our map viewer now allows you to sort by date, and overlay Sanborn insurance maps from the 1900s. Check it out: georeference.maprva.org

Big day for me today. I have in my hands the my first published paper map!

Lots to look forward to in September! Hope to see you this week at Main Library for some bus stop mapping. Check out our full calendar at maprva.org