After almost 80 years in business, the owner of The Map Store in Milwaukee will be closing the doors in April. Read about the owner and the store history, and maybe buy a few maps before they close! Click below for the story.
Do you gather GPS points while you are running? If so, here is an article about the best way to symbolize your point data to show your running information.
Hillmap is a web based mapping app that lets you create and print free, customizable maps from high quality map layers. You can also use Hillmap tools to calculate slope and distance, check the weather at your destination, analyze snowpack, and more.
This app is definitely handy to calculate your hiking route and check on the slope. You can also turn on multiple overlays, like slope, weather radar, and other map information. Give it a spin!
Check out this interesting article about books with maps that you might have read when you were young. The maps were used to describe the fictional world you were reading about.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, many believed California was a remote island with plenty of gold, free-loving amazons, and strange beasts.
A new exhibit at Cal State Fullerton’s Pollak Library features a selection of maps from the Roy V. Boswell Collection for the History of Cartography, one of the University’s special collections. The exhibit, “California As an Island and Worlds That Never Were,” will be on display Jan. 22 to March 29 in the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery.
Looking to go on a road trip? If you know your stops, why not let Python figure out the most optimum route for you? Click below to learn how it is done.
Uber is providing access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips to help improve urban planning around the world. Uber movement provides a new way on how traffic is moving around in your city. It was designed in partnership with urban planners and transportation professionals. Tools are included to analyze traffic changes over time. Check it out!
Thanks goes to Barry Waite for finding this one!
With all the rain we have been receiving, I thought this site might be useful for those driving around. LA County Department of Public Works has a road closures website which shows road closures in the unincorporated areas of the county ONLY. So if you plan on travelling in the mountains, you would probably want to consult this site.
Check out this article about mapping building shadows of New York City. Building shadows were measured using a shadow accumulation technique and the dates of December 21 (winter solstice), June 21 (summer solstice), and September 22 (autumnal equinox) were chosen for the shadow profile. Shadows can be greatly distorted when they are near the horizon, so all the shadows in the model were estimated from one and a half hours after sunrise and one and a half hours before sunset.
Thanks goes to Mary Bates from College of the Canyons for finding this article!
Check out these maps that show the massive scope of America’s infrastructure using data from OpenStreetMap and various government sources.
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