It's incredibly cool that you got a by-line, and the lead position for that matter. Is that due to the work you did coding the project, or because of your role coming up with the idea, mentioned in your other comment [1], or because of some other journalism you did on the project that you haven't mentioned?
Since folks seem to be curious, here's the division of labor:
I pitched the idea, stitched together some Landsat photos as a proof of concept and a rough design, built out and implemented the page, worked on labels and city outlines, and helped out with picking some locations and editing.
Karen did most of the reporting and research on this. She's also responsible for much of the reporting on the ongoing map stack graphic.
Derek helped out with the Landsat color toning and burning in city shapes, built the locator map and the Baghdad odometer, and confirmed some of the statuses.
Archie worked on a ton of the writing, polished the design, and did a mountain of editing to boil it down to the essentials. He also kept everything coordinated, as a good Graphics Editor will do...
Nilkanth did some yeoman's work on tracing city shapes...
Bostock provided the final projections for both the Euphrates and Tigris maps, fixing my original broken projections.
The Baghdad bureau confirmed Karen's reporting, and added helpful notes and suggestions which were incorporated.
You know, I'm so conflicted about you. On the one hand, I greatly admire much of the open source code you've released, while on the other, it irks me considerably, the way you glorify working at such a despicable imperialist propaganda machine; a veritable house of lies.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986383