Bert Spaan
cartography + data + visualization // building https://allmaps.org // freelance creative technologist
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- Reposted by Bert Spaan@bertspaan.nl (Allmaps.org) & @kmcdono.bsky.social speaking on “Text on Maps: From Collection Discovery to Research Data” at #FF2025 bit.ly/44bmrJE / learn more about the @iiif.bsky.social / Allmaps partnership here: bit.ly/446uNlN
- Reposted by Bert SpaanCongratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
- The first version of Allmaps Here is live! Explore historic maps around you and see where you’d be standing—centuries ago. Try Allmaps Here yourself: here.allmaps.org
- See your location on a historic map and share your location on a with friend: "Look, I'm here on this map of Amsterdam! Where are you? here.allmaps.org/maps/7c330e2...
- Allmaps Here can plot GeoJSON routes on historic maps. Create a route and walk around on a map from 1630:
- If maps from your city are missing, you can make them available in Allmaps Here by georeferencing new maps with Allmaps Editor: editor.allmaps.org
- Reposted by Bert Spaancatching up with @bertspaan.nl who gave me all these fun @latest.allmaps.org stickers. New version of Allmaps Editor powered by Terra Draw coming soon 😎
- I've been very quiet on Bluesky. It's time to change that! Hello, my name is Bert, I'll post about maps and computers.
- This week, I'm working on creating dynamic Open Graph images for various parts of allmaps.org. The first is for latest.allmaps.org, a small website that shows the last 250 maps georeferenced with Allmaps.
- I'm using Cloudflare Workers and their @cloudflare/pages-plugin-vercel-og package to generate these images. Next up: all other Allmaps websites!
