Virginia Maps Always Seem To Interest Me (Bristol Herald Courier)
I have always liked maps. No, lets say that Im really obsessed with maps, especially in studying detailed maps and then trying to figure out how one place looked years ago in comparison to how it looks today. I am especially intrigued by John Smiths work in the 1600s. For one, Smith flipped over the shape of Virginia and looked at all the coastal inlets sideways from the angle of the mouth …
MDEQ Unveils Flood Zone Maps (WAPT Jackson)
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has released new flood maps for Hinds County.
Iowas flood maps are old or nonexistent, officials acknowledge (The Des Moines Register)
Only 52 of Iowas 99 counties have complete flood plain maps that meet federal standards and many of those havent been updated in more than 20 years, state officials acknowledged this morning.
StreamGraph Maps Twitter Word by Word (Wired News)
Micro-blogging service Twitter captures the imagination of data-visualization mashup creators, with new eye candy showing up as regularly as Tweets about cats and ice cream. The latest is StreamGraph, which visually maps the latest 200 Tweets containing a given word.
What would MAPS do for AHS? (Altus Times)
The 1930 Altus High School building is scheduled for renovation and the addition of classrooms with voters passage of the August 26 MAPS proposal to extend the one-cent city sales tax for 12 years and add a three-quarter cent sales tax.
Biz blog: Upgrade for Google Maps (York Daily Record)
Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It’s nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.
First look: Google Mobile Maps transit directions for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile (Geek.com)
Ive been testing the new version of Google Maps for mobile with transit directions (walking, bus, rail, etc.) for the Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 5 & 6 platforms for a couple of days now. The new wrinkle in this version is the ability to provide directions if you are walking and/or using public transportation […]
Note to privacy advocates: Good luck (CNET via Yahoo! News)
There are plenty of legitimate concerns about the privacy intrusions of Google Maps’ Street View, but one privacy group went a bit overboard with an attack on the search giant’s all-seeing eye.
Googler Asks, "Marry Me" Via Google Maps (Search Engine Land)
The Google Earth Blog reports that Googler Michael Weiss-Malik has proposed to his girlfriend, Leslie, via Google Maps. They documented everything on their new web site, MarryMeLeslie.com , but here is a picture of the proposal using an embeddable Google Map: View Larger Map Click to continue reading…
New Google maps show ground-level images of B.R. (WAFB Baton Rouge)
The highly-touted Google TM street maps now are showing ground-level pictures of Metro Baton Rouge and they seem to be as recent as last winter or spring.