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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 …
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has released new flood maps for Hinds County.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It’s nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.
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 […]
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.
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…
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.