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Riley Champine

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Cartographer at the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab • Former Graphics Editor at Nat Geo — 🗺️ Map Nerd • 🚲 Bike Commuter • 🚎 Transit Advocate • 🇺🇸 USMNT / 🦘 Richmond Kickers / Fulham FC ⚽️ fan

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · May 9

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · May 3

That second goal from a giveaway was a gut punch. Good fight from the boys though. Bagpipe in the Red Army 10/10.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 28

Directly in front of me is the site of Edward Valentine's sculpting studios — which are annotated on the 1905 Sanborn map. Today it's the GRTC transfer center.

A screenshot of a Sanborn map from 1905, focusing two buildings that were sculptor's studios. Each building has an annotation indicating that they had skylights.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 28

Nice view from my temporary office over Leigh St. #RVA

A view of downtown Richmond VA behind a laptop screen showing Sanborn maps.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 23

That Emi goal though

a cartoon character is giving the ok sign and saying perfection .

ALT: a cartoon character is giving the ok sign and saying perfection .

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 20

a little boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in a parking lot .

ALT: a little boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in a parking lot .

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 20

Brutal. 2nd half was sad.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 14

Amen. Their ability to locate any one showing up at the lot or terminal in less that two minutes is incredible.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Mar 4

Dang! Hopefully a much bigger opportunity elsewhere?

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 19

Zorch by the slice while watching a game would be heavenly.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 19

Ooh love this

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 18

🚲🌊 When the James River and your evening commute become one (Riverside Dr between Rockfalls Dr and the Z Dam).

A video showing the James River flooding over Riverside Drive at sunset.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 16

The outfall events are a huge bummer but there are positive changes in the works to mitigate them. These maps are from the CSO 2024 Final Plan – worth skimming on a torrential day like today. rvah2o.org/wp-content/u...

Map and table showing 4 projects selected for the Richmond Combined Sewer Overflow plan. The plan aims to reduce untreated wastewater overflow by 785 million gallons per year.

Map and chart of the Combined Sewer Overflow system showing that the Shockoe and Southside outfalls contribute 91% of bacteria load.

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 16

Today's combined Sewage Overflow map AKA "Richmond's Map of Shame" — 12 of 25 outflows currently spewing our raw wastewater into the James and Gillies Creek. apps.emnet.net/richmond-pub...

A map of the James River in Richmond showing that 12 of the 25 Combined Sewer Overflow outfall sites are overflowing on Feb 16, 2025.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 11

We're one step away from a beautiful Mayo Bridge... #RVA richmondbizsense.com/2025/02/11/l...

A Star Trek Geordi meme stating that an unprotected bike lane shown in the latest Mayo Bridge design is not it — the bike lane needs a proper barrier.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 11

Special shout out to Marvin Hicks, Community Memory Fellow — he is doing some great work in the memory lab and getting deep into visualizing Richmond history. Looks like RPL has some exciting stuff upcoming. rvalibrary.org/shelf-respec...

Meet the Community Memory Fellow: Marvin Hicks - Richmond Public Library

The Community Memory Fellow (CMF) position was created to broaden the notion of what public history is in Richmond and make that history accessible to everyone. Over the course of […]

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 11

Latoya Gray-Sparks gave an excellent (and heartbreaking) talk about Urban Renewal history in #RVA tonight. RPL Memory Lab was a great host and put together these fantastic Sanborn map displays with monopoly pieces to show homes razed for Gilpin Court, I-95, and the downtown expressway.

Latoya Gray-Sparks presenting maps and images of north Jackson Ward before its destruction to make way for public housing in the 1940s.

A table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.

A man looks through a magnifying glass at a table with a collage of Sanborn maps and photos. Small plastic houses from a monopoly set are placed on top of the maps to represent the dwellings destroyed in the 1940s and 50s to make way for public housing and the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 11

Boooooo

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Doug @dfrsh757.bsky.social · Feb 10

A group is trying to effectively sabotage the Fall Line trail’s path through Bryan Park. Sign BikeWalk RVA’s petition here to tell City leadership you support the trail!
www.sportsbackers.org/program/bike...

Sign The Petition - Sports Backers

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 6

I dabbled in some local reporting last night. Moral of the story — RVA311.com is fully staffed and improving. The more folks log on and upvote requests the better it works.

South Richmond @southrichmondnews.bsky.social · Feb 6

For the first meeting of her term, Abubaker invited Peter Briel, the city’s Director of Citizen Service and Response to talk about RVA311, and how citizens can best use it to solve problems
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Deep dive into RVA311 at 4th District Meeting

Deep dive into RVA311 at 4th District Meeting / South Richmond News - Richmond, Virginia

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Feb 2

New music from Butcher Brown coming fresh out of #RVA might be the only thing keeping me sane after two weeks of the new admin’s cruelty and bullshit. youtu.be/2cs0CKylxPI?...

Butcher Brown: Select Cuts - “Ibiza” (Official Live Performance)

YouTube video by Butcher Brown

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Jan 29

For context — the throwback kits: www.richmondkickers.com/news/2022/03...

I will say I'm glad the navy blue is in the new look!

Kickers Unveil '93 Legacy Jersey Set Honoring Club's Historic 30th Consecutive Season - Richmond Kickers

RICHMOND, Va. – The Richmond Kickers are excited to unveil the 2022 Legacy Jersey Set from Adidas featuring a primary green jersey and secondary red, white and blue jersey that honors the club’s 30th ...

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Jan 29

Ever since the @richmondkickers.bsky.social brought out the old '90s logo in 2022 I've been toying with ideas for a new crest that brings back that OG soccer feel in a fresh way. I'm not sure I cracked the code but I wish the new crest went in this direction instead of old-timey baseball.

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Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Jan 29

@richmondkickers.bsky.social I love you but this logo is a mess. It looks like an illegible monogram for RFK. Is it supposed to be evoking an old-timey baseball logo? We're an OG soccer club from the '90s.
I really wish there was some outreach to the fans about this...

Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com · Jan 27

Excellent to see work underway!