Articles tagged: maps
Column: This Week's Web Picks: where crime stops; a hoax shall set you free; music zones and zoning
Posted: Nov 24, 2012This is the next in a series of posts on interesting and useful websites. Omega CrimeMapping Last week's reported crime in the West Palm Beach, Fla. area While AnnArbor.com reports daily on nearly every notable ... Read more »
COLUMN: 1903 Michigan football game filmed by Thomas Edison among this week's web nuggets
Posted: Mar 10, 2012Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a planned weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. 1. Google Maps Mania googlemapsmania.blogspot.com Showing us exactly where places are ... Read more »
Have you spotted the Google street-view car yet?
Posted: Jun 09, 2011For people who need a bit of a nudge to get their flowers planted and porches cleaned up, a Google street-car has been spotted in and around Ann Arbor the past few days. The cars ... Read more »
Links: The Huron River runs through Ann Arbor in 1819
Posted: Feb 28, 2011The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records Automation web site has more than 5 million documents of land patents, survey notes, field notes and land status records dating back to 1810. The records ... Read more »
Strange maps and cartographic curiousities from Frank Jacobs
Posted: Feb 24, 2011Strange Maps is a weblog written by Frank Jacobs, who has been collecting map-related oddities since 2006. He is the author of the book Strange Maps (ISBN 9780142005255), published in October 2009 by Penguin. The ... Read more »
Map catalog adds building outlines based on countywide LiDAR imagery
Posted: Feb 17, 2011The City of Ann Arbor data catalog has a number of high quality map data sets available which can be loaded into mapping programs like Google Earth and Google Maps. This data is exported from ... Read more »
links: Planning a trip or driving around town? A look at I-94, US-23, M-14 and local traffic real time maps
Posted: Dec 13, 2010If you're heading to Ann Arbor for school, a game, dinner, an event or even just to commute to your job in town, you want to check how the roads are. Here's some maps that ... Read more »
Links: With maps: Voter turnout percentages in the August 2010 primary
Posted: Oct 21, 2010This story has been edited to update a portion of the map which was based on incorrect data. Yesterday's column on frequency of absentee voting prompted a question about voter turnout. Thanks to Andy Brush ... Read more »
Links: Pittsfield Township in maps, east of US-23, north of I-94
Posted: Sep 23, 2010Four county governments are looking at a new taxing authority to develop the Washtenaw Avenue corridor, in part because there are so many government units which each oversee a small slice of Washtenaw that it's ... Read more »
links: Severe weather online: checking the progress of storms as they roll by
Posted: Jun 01, 2010As the storms came into the area yesterday, my boys were playing in the yard. Everyone came in for lunch and to check the weather. I knew it was probably going to rain, but wasn't ... Read more »
Links: Neighborhood real estate maps and Zillow
Posted: May 21, 2010With the real estate boom came a host of automated, web-based systems which grew up around it and profited from the rapid pace of easy-to-get mortgages and generous real estate appraisals.Now that the boom is ... Read more »
Links: Map libraries and archives tell stories of how things would have been
Posted: May 19, 2010If you've been reading along, you know that there's nothing more that I like doing than digging up a map to illustrate a story. Here are some map libraries to look through, ranging from up ... Read more »
mgoblue.com: Rosters set for alumni flag football game Saturday at Michigan Stadium
Posted: Apr 15, 2010Desmond Howard will coach the Maize team. LaMarr Woodley is coach of the Blue team. Both former Michigan football players have plenty of familiar names to put in action for the alumni flag football game ... Read more »
links: It's almost spring: predicting flooding on the Huron River
Posted: Mar 15, 2010In the spring, the snow melts and low lying parts of the Huron River valley flood. This happens pretty much every year. And while the river is not at flood stages now, there are some ... Read more »
Links: Online suggestions for bicycle routes around Ann Arbor, including new options from Google maps
Posted: Mar 10, 2010Google recently announced that its Google Maps service now has bicycle routes. You can now plan your bicycle trips and it will guide you to bicycle trails, hills that are not so steep and roads ... Read more »
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