Stories, research, and updates from the Levantine project.
A follow-up to our 1925-map post: this time we georeferenced a 1916 War Office map — reading it at full resolution to pull positions, line status, and real geometry from the map itself, not just station order.
Tim Bonnemann · July 26, 2026 · 3 min read
A look under the hood: how we use Claude Code to read historic maps, reconcile them against our database, and grow it — a process we can now repeat on any map.
Tim Bonnemann · July 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Our first real update since launch: the dataset more than doubled, every record is now sourced, and the map shows exactly how sure we are.
Tim Bonnemann · July 10, 2026 · 2 min read
First blog post! And a quick update on a few things we launched this week.
Tim Bonnemann · April 10, 2026 · 1 min read