It began with a lunch. A lunch of Indian food salad things:

And here's a fantastic episode of The Memory Palace about plaques, "Notes on an Imagined Plaque":

Special thanks to:

• Alan Brown for donating over 2000 plaque images and transcriptions from his sites Ontario Plaques and Toronto Plaques.
• Byron Hooks for contributing nearly 3000 plaques from his site Lat34North.
• Logan Rockmore for his beautiful redesign of the maps interface and page header.
• Geograph for sharing their plaques photos and transcriptions.

Rick Paulas wrote an interesting article about how plaques are made for Pacific Standard.

Kester Allen has administered the site since 2015.