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Fires are burning again in Southern California, and the map makers are hard at work helping people know what’s happening where. Below, maps relating to the Corral Fire in Malibu: Click to continue reading…

Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.

New floodplain maps could mean changes in insurance rates for Kane County home and business owners.

It the mid-18th century, teams of men spread out across Vermont to map the tractless wilderness.

One by one governmental leaders signed to receive their copies of FEMA’s new flood maps. “The final product of all the study that has been going on over the past two years,” Planning Director Michele Coats said.

GAUTIER — The final flood plain maps are complete and closely resemble the standards Jackson County residents have been using since shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said Friday.

So what can property owners do if they are included in the flood zone of the new maps which will likely go into effect in early 2009? At this point in time, property owners should get in touch with their local government and find out first if they are included.

A system of flood gates and pumps built since Hurricane Katrina to help alleviate flooding in several New Orleans neighborhoods may not be as much help as authorities first said. The Army Corps of Engineers released flood risk maps on a block-by-block basis on June 20, but didn’t include some technical data, preventing independent assessments of the accuracy of the maps. The maps showed that the …

Internet search leader Google will install its maps feature at some gas stations next month. About 3,500 gas pumps will be fitted with an Internet connection and a small color screen. You can type in where you want to go, and the pump will display a map. It will even print directions for you.

Trying to figure out the impact of last week’s oil spill in San Francisco Bay, which happened after the container ship Cosco Busan hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge? There are maps to the rescue! Links to them below, along with some observations on the difficulty in finding community-built maps like these in Google Maps. Both maps below come via a blog post from Google’s Lat Long …

Police tracked down precious maps stolen from Spain’s National Library, including some cut out of 15th and 16th century books by Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolomy.

Police returned precious maps , including some cut out of 15th and 16th century books by Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolomy , to Spain’s National Library . Police tracked stolen maps to locations on three continents.

Morning Edition , November 12, 2007 Internet search leader Google will install its maps feature at some gas stations next month. About 3,500 gas pumps will be fitted with an Internet connection and a small color screen. You can type in where you want to go, and the pump will display a map.

Maps for the “green” home and garden tour sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Commission on Saturday Nov. 17 can be picked at sign-up, this weekend at convenient Princeton locations, including Whole Earth.

Two of world’s rarest maps to be returned to rightful home in Madrid’s national library

EDITORS NOTE: This is the first part of a series about how new FEMA maps of the areas flood plain will affect residents and industries. Living in the Mississippi River flood plain is risky business.

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