Late breaking news
This is going to sound like I’m on some sad, geeky maps-watch, but… I’ve been on a sad, geeky maps watch and have noticed that there’s a new version of Nokia Maps online, v2.0.2402 - and no, I’ve no idea what’s new. There’s also a new MapLoader, v1.3.12, promising ‘improved compatibility’.
In “Maps and Legends,” his new collection of essays, Michael Chabon postulates an alternate universe: “Imagine that, sometime about 1950, it has been decided collectively, informally, a little at a time, but with finality, to proscribe every kind of novel but…
Proposed flood insurance rate maps for St. Tammany Parish and the parish’s eight municipalities were unveiled by federal officials Wednesday in Covington, triggering a 12- to 18-month process of public review and comment.
…and it’s rather unfortunate. Spacing reports that the TTC has begun to update its subway route map in subway carswith a much uglier font, slightly more clutter, and a messy new treatment of addresses. To wit on the latter point:…visual clutter is increased by the new addresses on the maps.
While it’s all but inevitable the Sutter County Board of Supervisors will pass new flood insurance maps for the south county by December, that vote will not be a pleasant time at the Hall of Records building.
After two years of mapping and research, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new flood maps for residents of Slidell and the rest of St. Tammany Parish.
Reader Don sends in this fantastic tip about a Google Street View car actually driving around and taking pictures inside a Microsoft campus. The GooCarshown here photographed by…
Maps estimating the emergence of midge populations are being posted daily on the Canadian Wheat Board ( CWB) web site as a service to western Canadian grain farmers.
Cayce leaders are to meet this morning to adopt disputed federal flood zone standards that would ban construction in most of the Vista Farms project. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered Cayce to adopt 2002 flood maps or risk losing flood insurance eligibility. Flood zones have been in dispute, including court challenges, for more than a decade. The fight dates to when the project …
A hazard-mapping project for the Philippines’ typhoon-prone eastern seaboard is set to be completed next year to help minimize casualties and economic disruption, the government said Thursday.