Reviving Old Side Projects with Claude Code

One of the things that continues to amazon me after a year of workign with Cursor and Claude Code is just how great they are for cutting through annoying, cruft tasks that tend to stall personal projects out.

I had a copy of a detailed survey map of Thamesville, ON complete with years of annotations by various residents on who lived where, what buildings were special, and all kinds of other small town-ness. And about 14 years ago I digitized it by taking pictures with an SLR and sliced it up into map tiles Google Maps-style.

I prototyped it but never got around to deploying it. Well yesterday I found the old git repo with the tiles. claude --d-s-p had it updated, and ready for use in 5-10 minutes. I spent more time getting the tiles into S3 than I did getting it usable locally.

If you want some quality, small-town, knowledge: Thamesville 1925 Survey Map