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Eighteenth-century maps and their lotting plans remain valuable frames of reference for 21st century real estate deals.

More than 1,000 property owners in Aurora recently got a notice in the mail about flood plain maps. The most important advice that Ken Schroth, the city’s public works director, can give them is this: Don’t throw that piece of paper away without reading it.

The Vermont State Archives in the United States has announced it will be putting the lot maps used in the 18th century …

New floodplain maps could mean changes in insurance rates for Kane County home and business owners.

Pirated electronic maps are sending Shanghai drivers the wrong way … one says he keeps being directed toward the river by mistake.

Fires are burning again in Southern California, and the map makers are hard at work helping people know what’s happening where. Below, maps relating to the Corral Fire in Malibu: Click to continue reading…

Fires are burning again in Southern California, and the map makers are hard at work helping people know what’s happening where. Below, maps relating to the Corral Fire in Malibu: Click to continue reading…

Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.

New floodplain maps could mean changes in insurance rates for Kane County home and business owners.

It the mid-18th century, teams of men spread out across Vermont to map the tractless wilderness.

Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians. Those early surveyors had to climb mountains, ford rivers and slog through swamps as they divided the land into 251 towns and then apportioned the towns into lots. But their …

Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians. Those early surveyors had to climb mountains, ford rivers and slog through swamps as they divided the land into 251 towns and then apportioned the towns into lots. …

WASHINGTON - Tired of getting bad directions? Google Maps, Google’s popular mapping and driving directions tool, is now letting users correct its maps, Wikipedia-style.

Google is making refinements to its Maps area of its website, allowing users to move the location indicators brought up by address searches. The Washington Post reports that Google account-holders will be able to do Wikipedia-style edits to inaccurate address information. In order to prevent malicious users from playing with the green address marke…

WASHINGTON - Tired of getting bad directions? Google Maps, Google’s popular mapping and driving directions tool, is now letting users correct its maps, Wikipedia-style.

Google is making refinements to its Maps area of its website, allowing users to move the location indicators brought up by address searches. The Washington Post reports that Google account-holders will be able to do Wikipedia-style edits to inaccurate address information. In order to prevent malicious users from playing with the green address marke…

Google Maps have some features hidden in them that make them more accessible than you may think. The problem is that you have to find them out by accident or word of mouth.