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A cucumber map of Europe

By markgreninger, on May 13th, 2013

This is a fun read: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/606-a-cucumber-map-of-europe

Long live the Greater Cucumber Co-Prosperity Sphere!

Map Design Resources from Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey

By markgreninger, on May 10th, 2013

Thanks to Mike Carson from SoCalGIS for passing along:

This is a helpful resource for folks looking to improve their maps. They have online resources for:

Colours (or colors as we like to spell it).
Fonts
Symbols
Map inspiration

Check it out here.

21 Maps of Highly Segregated Cities in America

By markgreninger, on April 29th, 2013

Thanks to Joshua James for passing this along. The visualization here is really powerful!

Their map of Los Angeles was powerful – but there are 20 other cities to see. What’s interesting is that for Los Angeles there are a lot more colors (more ethnicities) than for other cities.

Link to the article and maps

California Launches GeoPortal

By markgreninger, on March 29th, 2013

California has launched its GeoPortal: http://portal.gis.ca.gov

Congratulations to Scott Gregory (GIO of California) and his team – it’s a great start!

My quick take:

The sound clips talk a lot about mobile apps – looking forward to what that means
I really like the application carousel – it’s a pretty cool interface – but it doesn’t work in Google Chrome.
My favorite map could be the Parcel Viewer – but it isn’t working.
The Viewer leaves a lot to be desired – throwing data on a map without any tools that provide context doesn’t help too much. I think that Philadelphia’s map viewer is a bit closer to what we need – where you can switch between maps. But on that map, too there aren’t tools that let you interact with the information in a way that is specific to each map.
If this portal is for California, why is there Oregon data there?
Under the gallery, the organization by theme is really cool, but some of the links are just PDFs – don’t know if that is really what we need. BUT as this part fills out I look forward to it – I just hope that the search capabilities are robust enough to clear out clutter.
I am having some issues searching.

Here’s a Video showing how to use it:

Cheating boyfriend caught on Russian Map site

By markgreninger, on February 20th, 2013

Thanks to Chris Sellers for passing along this tidbit. I guess in Russia they don’t require the same privacy of faces that they do here ….

http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2013/02/20/17030737-cheating-boyfriend-busted-thanks-to-russian-map-site?lite?ocid=twitter

Interesting privacy issues though …

How Monopoly and Maps rescued WW2 POWs

By markgreninger, on January 10th, 2013

Escape Maps

Thanks to Michael Carson for passing along!!!

An interesting article.

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/10/Waropoly-How-Historys-Most-Popular-Board-Game-Helped-Defend-The-Free-World/

A map of LA’s urban core?

By markgreninger, on January 2nd, 2013

LA’s Core

Mike Jenkins passed this interesting article about LA’s urban core along Wilshire and Santa Monica. It’s an interesting hypothesis, and is similar to the “Walk Score” concept of mapping amenities near each other. I think there are some issues (as are mentioned in the article) about it missing other cores such as Pasadena, etc – what do you think?

Link to the article

Google Maps back on iPhone!

By markgreninger, on December 13th, 2012

I’ve been holding off upgrading to the newest version of iOS so that I wouldn’t get stuck with the Apple maps. Now I can move forward!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-maps-is-now-available-for-iphone.html

City Boundary Updates

By markgreninger, on December 6th, 2012

The LA County GIS program has completed the implementation of two October 2012 annexations (City of Santa Clarita and City of Palmdale) as well as some cartographic updates to the Port of Los Angeles (removing the city boundary checked linework from internal port/water boundaries).

This has been updated in all three map services (Street, Canvas, and Base) that reference the city boundary data.

The changes are seamless – samples are below

2008 Obama/McCain Vote by Precinct

By markgreninger, on November 1st, 2012

Election results can be difficult to understand – props to my alma mater Spatial Sciences Institute - for providing a good visualization of the fact that red/blue isn’t the only way to show voting patterns.

Here are the details: https://sites.stanford.edu/sssl/2008-obamamccain-vote-precinct - the map is below.

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