co-Founder & CTO at Salesium. Advisory board member of OpenHistoricalMap. Long time participant in OpenStreetMap. Active in Automotive Road Racing as a […]
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just sent my presentation slides for #sotmus26 to the conference organizers. also, just put them on SlideShare
"In Search of the Eastern Turnpike"
mapping the highway from the early 1800s in Rensselaer County, New York. #openhistoricalmap #OpenStreetMap […]
changed out the photo on the title slide. like this better, actual eastern turnpike image. this is where the modern Dutch Church Road meets the old Eastern Turnpike up on the Rensselaer Plateau. paid a visit today, been a while since i've been up on the Plateau.
2/ i just went through the wikipedia page on NY turnpikes, comparing the list to the items in the Noble E. Whitford box in the New York State Library. just comparing the lists was useful, and i have requested a research appointment at the library so i can review the contents of the box itself […]
I got my bolt from the initial kickstarter. Was not entirely happy with it at first; filled it with Diamine Sargasso Sea and it was very prone to drying out. Used up the ink, cleaned it, and set it aside for a while.
Recently I replaced the silicone seal and […]
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4/ remaining mysteries - Doris Cox, in a 1995 paper, mentions a north south turnpike through Berlin NY along the modern NY 22 corridor. i have not found anything about this one.
and... Wikipedia claims the Petersburgh Turnpike (roughly the NY 2 corridor from Troy to the MA state line) was […]
5/ my recent visit to the Hart-Cluett Museum (Rensselaer County Historical Society) paid off in that I found a document clarifying the disposition of the Eastern Turnpike. Figuring out end dates can be way harder than start dates.
several years ago Jeff Meyers advocated for #OpenHistoricalMap engagement with local historical societies.
i'm in complete agreement; engaging with them is proving to be valuable. but i'm going to generalize that to also spending time visiting traditional archives. i've been working on turnpikes […]
So… new acting director of national intelligence. I’m actually more qualified to do the job than he is, and I’m not really qualified at all…
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3/ one mystery is now less of a mystery. there is a road that goes south from the Village of Nassau NY (_not_ on Long Island, there's another Nassau) into the Town of Chatham, with road name signs saying "Albany Turnpike Road". i was unable to find a matching […]
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just recieved: John Parshall's new book, *1942: Crux of War*. it's an interesting and different approach, structured month-by-month across all theaters, from December 1941 to December 1942. due for release next month, i got my copy last week. haven't had time to […]
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