I’ve been fiddling around with the new nopd.com crime-mapping feature. It’s pretty interesting stuff. You can put in an address and see all the crime…
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Following up on yesterday’s post: Big thanks to Ashley Morris for putting together this swell interactive map of the City’s “imminent threat” demolition list. I’m…
Remember what I said about Bienville being just the tip of the iceberg? There are 1700+ properties on the “imminent threat” list. I just discovered my next door neighbor’s house is one of them! I called him (he’s in Texas) and he was shocked and alarmed. He has not been notified that his house is slated for demolition.
In an effort to visualize the scope of these demolitions, I’ve been fiddling around with BatchGeocode.com and Google Earth.
(I’ve posted the data to Google Earth Community for the true geeks.)
Of course I’ve been paying particular attention to the demolition in Mid-City. There are a lot of them, not just along Bienville. (I’ve posted Google Earth data for just Mid-City too.) According to a friend of mine, “The last major demolition of historic houses at this scale for urban renewal was the demolition of Treme for Louis Armstrong Park.”
I got an interesting phone call yesterday from a woman who read my blog and wanted to share some information anonymously. I asked her to put it in writing, so she sent me the following via e-mail, which I thought was quite extraordinary.
According to a story in the Times-Picayune: New Orleans officials Monday said they have started handing out notices to owners of any property deemed to…
At last, an easy way to geocode Flickr pix. You can see some of my pix on a map here.
Google Maps for my phone. Works like a dream. Hooray.
Google Maps recently added two zoom levels to their satellite views, and made other improvements that make it even more fun to fool around with.…
According to a story in the morning paper, our neighborhood has four months to prove its viability. This is according to the new plan from…
According to the New Orleans Flood Map our property is now dry, after soaking in 6.6′ of water for sixteen days.
Why does Indiana look so gray in the Google Maps satellite view? Thanks to Mr. Whybark for pointing this out.
There’s a lot of presidential poll data flying around these days, but I’ve noticed very little of it mentions the electoral college. That’s kind of…