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Citizens up and down the Bitterroot Valley got to see how their land could be zoned as the county unveiled its draft zoning maps this weekend. The first draft is a work in progress. There will be at least two more drafts before the commission adopts the maps.
The state-run Motorist Assistance Patrol is feeling the pain at the pump. The Department of Transportation operates about three MAPS units in the Baton Rouge area and a total of 12 across Louisiana. The vans can travel anywhere from 200 to 300 miles a day, and it costs about $100 to fill up each van.
Zoning should be relatively simple, and not harm existing land use patterns. That was the chief message that came from more than 80 people at a meeting Wednesday night on the first draft zoning maps produced by Clarion Associates, the planning consultants working for the county.
TACOMA, Wash. — Traffic flow maps from the state Department of Transportation that appear on the department’s Web site — and other Web sites, including kirotv.com — will be out intermittently Wednesday because of a technical glitch, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported.
The Chinese government is chastising several online providers, including Google maps, for providing illegal satellite imagery of the country and neighboring islands. Min Yiren, the deputy director of Chinas State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM), says as many as 10,000 online maps are illegal and publish sensitive information or incorrectly depict national borders.
I-5 flow maps in Tacoma in and out today
The development of new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance rate maps for Iberia Parish is in the very early stages and local residents are encouraged to give input on the matter.
Olive Branch elected officials voted Tuesday to hire ETI Corp. to review the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new maps that put some people in flood zones, requiring them to buy expensive flood insurance.
RARE Victorian maps of Edinburgh as well as hand drawings of the city’s first tram routes are to be included in the world’s biggest charity book sale.
China does not look kindly upon online mapping services, such as Google Maps, that represent islands like Taiwan as independent of China. The government also isn’t fond of groups using the service to discover new ballistic missile subs, and wants significant changes to the services. Read More…