The Daily Render by Nikolas R. Schiller

I was recently directed to the the National Archives’ Digital Vaults webpage. After the flash animation was loaded up, I was greeted by a nice visual interface (above) that shows various items that are digitally scattered within the vault.
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2/24/2008 || 3:32 pm
87 & 280 Quilt #4

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The 87 & 280 Interchange in San Jose, California

Using this portion of 87 & 280 Quilt #3, I constructed this derivative map of the California State Route 87 & interstate 280 interchange. This is the final map of the series. It reminds me of a braided highway!

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2/18/2008 || 1:33 pm
87 & 280 Quilt #3

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The 87 & 280 Interchange in San Jose, California

Using this portion of 87 & 280 Quilt #2, I constructed this derivative map of the California State Route 87 & interstate 280 interchange.

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2/17/2008 || 4:41 pm
87 & 280 Quilt #2

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The 87 & 280 Interchange in San Jose, California

Using this portion of 87 & 280 Quilt, I constructed this derivative map of the California State Route 87 & interstate 280 interchange. What is unique is that it’s a actually a Diamond Quilt Projection map, but it looks quite a bit like a Square Quilt Projection maps. The third derivative tessellation looks quite cool and I think the next map will be the best in the series.

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2/15/2008 || 1:45 pm
87 & 280 Quilt

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87 & 280 Interchange in San Jose, California

Similar to the Los Angeles Interchanges Series (LAIS), I decided to make my first San Jose, California map using imagery from the interchange of California State Route 87 & interstate 280. Unlike the LAIS, which used only the Diamond Quilt Projection this map uses a Hexagon Quilt Projection.

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1/19/2008 || 4:35 pm
syndicated in Taiwan, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Austin, Little Rock, and Lincoln, Nebraska

Screen grab from the 90.3 KWMU

A little over a week ago I noticed that Teresa Méndez article from the Christian Science Monitor had been syndicated in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ABC News.

Today I found that the article was syndicated again on December 30th, 2007 on quite a few NPR affiliates, including the one I used to listen to when I was young (KWMU 90.3) and, curiously, even in Taiwan.

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1/11/2008 || 9:52 pm
Curbed LA - Downtown Derricks

Screen Grab from Curbed LA

It looks like my ‘oil slick’ overlay of downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Interchange Series are getting some exposure.

Some day I’d like to have the entire series printed and hung in Los Angeles and maybe include a gilded bicycle [ha!]. I wonder why there isn’t a Curbed DC yet?

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1/6/2008 || 2:09 pm
Oil Wells in Los Angeles 103 years ago [One Slick Overlay]

Links to 2.5mb KMZ file for Google Earth
Were the fingerprints dipped in oil too?

The other day I was hunting for maps of Baltimore and stumbled on to the map above (published in Baltimore). It was last prominently featured in the Library of Congress’ “Los Angeles Mapped” on-line exhibition. The map shows downtown Los Angeles with little black dots showing the locations of all the oil wells that existed in 1905.

I wonder how many of the old oil derricks still exist today? I also wonder if people living where the oil wells were constructed own the mineral rights for their property? A few years back I remember looking into purchasing cheap land in Wyoming and one of the stipulations on the land was that the owner would not own the mineral rights below the surface of the earth. Does this exist in present day Los Angeles? Could someone living in Los Angeles today dig a little deeper and find a new source of oil in their backyard?

For more information visit the Library of Congress website. Below is a secondary screen grab showing the area around Dodgers Stadium. It should be noted that the overlay does line up 100% on Google Earth, but close enough to show a change in the built environment.
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11/15/2007 || 9:41 pm
2008 California Calendar

April 2008_____

As of January 1st, the calendar is no longer available for sale on-line. A big thank you to those who purchased copies!

A viewable copy of the calendar is in the permanent holdings of the Map and Imagery Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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9/15/2007 || 4:09 pm
Los Alamitos Circle Quilt #3

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Using this portion of the Los Alamitos Quilt #2, I created a derivative tessellation to create this map.

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9/12/2007 || 4:03 pm
Los Alamitos Circle Quilt #2

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Using this portion of the Los Alamitos Quilt, I created a derivative tessellation to create this map.

View the Google Map Los Alamitos Circle in Long Beach, California.

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9/11/2007 || 3:42 pm
Los Alamitos Circle Quilt

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From the Wikipedia entry:

The Los Alamitos Traffic Circle, informally known as the Long Beach Traffic Circle (or just the Traffic Circle, since there are no other high volume traffic circles in Southern California), is a roundabout at the intersection of Lakewood Boulevard (former California State Route 19), Pacific Coast Highway (California State Route 1/former US Highway 101 Alternate) and Los Coyotes Diagonal in Long Beach, California.

In the coming weeks, I am going to go through my maps and tag all the maps that feature traffic circles. I’ve made quite a few now. I would like to find more traffic circles in the Los Angeles area that are similar to the Los Alamitos Circle. Please contact me if you know of any.

View the Google Map Los Alamitos Circle in Long Beach, California.

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9/4/2007 || 5:39 pm
10 & 710 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-10 & I-110 in Los Angeles.

View the Google Map of the Los Angeles Interchanges Series

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8/30/2007 || 9:07 am
5 & 605 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of 5 & 605 in Los Angeles.

View the Google Map of the Los Angeles Interchanges Series

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8/29/2007 || 9:11 am
60 & 710 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of 60 & 710 in Los Angeles.

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8/28/2007 || 9:29 am
105 & 605 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of 105 & 605 in Los Angeles.

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8/27/2007 || 12:26 pm
91 & 605 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of 91 & 605 in Los Angeles.

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8/26/2007 || 12:38 pm
91 & 710 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-91 & I-710 in Los Angeles.

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8/24/2007 || 8:36 pm
91 & 110 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-91 & I-110 in Los Angeles.

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8/23/2007 || 9:34 am
110 & 405 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-110 & I-405 in Los Angeles.

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8/22/2007 || 9:20 am
Embedded Google Maps

View Larger Map of the Los Angeles Interchanges Series

Ever since Google Maps became available and I created my first mash-up, I’ve been trying to get the maps to display properly in my blog. It’s currently why the two mash-ups of America & DC sit outside the confines of this Wordpress blog. But not anymore! As you can see above, I can easily add Google Maps anywhere on my blog! In the near future I am probably going to redo these two mash-ups and port them back into the confines of this blog. I know it’s going to take awhile to do this task, and I am not looking forward to it.

==UPDATE==
There is one critical flaw in the Embedded Google Maps I’ve noticed so far. And it’s kinda problematic…. When clicking on the images within the information window, instead of loading a new webpage, they load within the area that map was embedded. Thus the links to their respective blog entries are pretty much useless…. hmmm…

==UPDATE==
It’s been fixed

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8/21/2007 || 1:21 pm
710 & 105 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-710 & I-105 in Los Angeles.

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8/19/2007 || 1:07 pm
105 & 110 Quilt

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Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-105 & I-110 in Los Angeles.

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8/18/2007 || 9:15 am
101 & 110 Quilt

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The 101 & 110 interchange is popularly known as the Four Level Interchange and officially known as the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, named after the KNXT traffic / weather reporter.

Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-101 & I-110 in Los Angeles.

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8/17/2007 || 1:32 pm
5, 10, 60, & 101 Quilt

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Yesterday’s 5 & 10 Quilt is the northern part of the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and this map is the southern half. I had quite a bit a of trouble trying to properly name this map because I couldn’t really figure out which interchange was which! So instead of selectively naming only a couple of the highways, I decided to name this map using ALL of the highways.

According to the Wikipedia entry:

* Interstate 5 enters the complex from the south as the Santa Ana Freeway, but exits to the north as the Golden State Freeway. The Santa Ana Freeway continues west as U.S. 101 to the Four Level Interchange (Bill Keene Memorial Interchange) in downtown Los Angeles.

* Interstate 10 is not contiguous through the interchange. Heading west into the complex on the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10), the primary road (or trunk) heads to U.S. 101. In order to follow the I-10 alignment, one must exit the trunk road and follow a connector that merges with the alignment of southbound I-5, then exit that trunk and follow another connector to the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10); note also the change in the freeway’s name.

* Heading west into the complex on the Pomona Freeway (CA/SR-60), the primary road (or trunk) heads into the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10).

Up next will be the Four Level Interchange.

Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of 5, 10, 60, & 101 in Los Angeles.

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8/16/2007 || 3:13 pm
5 & 10 Quilt

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This interchange is apart of the East Los Angeles Interchange complex, which is one of the busiest freeway interchanges in the world. I am going to make a few more maps of this interchange in the coming days.

Click here to read more about the series “Los Angeles Interchanges”

View the Google Map of the intersection of I-5 & I-10 in Los Angeles.

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