As part of yesterday’s reader roulette I stumbled upon this interactive map from Forbes Magazine which shows where Americans moved from and to in 2008. Click on any county in the nation and it will display black lines representing where people are moving from (in to the county) and red lines representing where people are [...]
A blog about Long Island History just wrote a blurb about my 1946 Huntington Town Planning Map. Cool! I may not blog every day but I’ve been blogging a long time. Statistically speaking, 99.99% of all blogs on the internet were started after my first blog (this one) first launched in January of 2001. I’ve [...]
Here’s a cool map of Major League Baseball fans. These aren’t official markets but it shows the location of each team’s typical fan base. Click the image to enlarge it. This is the source of the image but their menu blocks half of the map.
I’ve previously blogged about my historic 1946 Town of Huntington Planning Map. Today I learned about Yahoo’s new Map Mixer application, which overlays uploaded maps over the ones found on Yahoo. Naturally I tried it out with my 1946 map to share with others. Aside from progress in general, it’s pretty cool to fiddle with [...]
I’m a regular contributer to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. I have well over 700 edits to my credit. I own an old 1946 town planning map from Huntington, New York which I considered historically significant enough to warrant an article on Wikipedia. The map shows Long Island right before the post-World War II population explosion [...]