Maps

Los Angeles Public Library’s map librarian Glen Creason talks about the history of Sunset Strip and Volume 10 of Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases. It’s the first episode in the LA Public Library’s new series called LA Stories from the “Map…

ESRI has a link on their site to this super useful public information map of wildfires in the western US. It’s a tough summer with hardly any rainfall in California so if you live in a danger zone, it is…

It’s 2014 and I’m really excited that we have reached a point where I can get real time data on maps. I remember when we used to be able to get 15 minute old satellite weather photos on Mosaic 20…

A trivia games based on Google Maps?? Sign me up!! Smarty Pins is a game from Google that allows you to rove the globe to answer questions. Some are super easy, and if you play a lot like I have…

Today there was a m7.9 quake near Little Sitkin Island in the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska. On the interwebs, there were many shots of the potential tsunami propagation from the quake – despite, according to CalTech’s Lucy Jones, the…

Susan Schulten has a great article at the New Republic where she focuses on this map produced by John Wesley Powell Its’s a great looking map, and even more important was Powell’s warnings about how dry the west was called…

Southland has a great article on how Los Angeles, California went from a sleepy little pueblo and four square leagues of land into the massive city that it is today. Make sure you also check out KCET’s article from February…

I came across this map right after it was published in 1992 by the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. I immediately fell in love because it mapped earthquakes and typhoon/hurricane tracks for the Circum-Pacific region. Natural disasters are…