Category Archives: Maps

Oct 06

NYT college football map

Posted on Monday, October 6, 2014, at 10:51 AM by Jeff

Western Iowa and Lansing, we need to have a talk about state loyalties… I continue to have concerns about treating Facebook like it’s a statistically valid population sample, but the New York Times is doing it anyway again. After mapping … Continue reading →

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Sep 12

DOT revamps county, city map webpage

Posted on Friday, September 12, 2014, at 9:59 AM by Jeff

The Iowa DOT has incorporated the former iowadotmaps.com site (the URL still redirects) into the main iowadot.gov site, and that includes conforming to the (old) layout. The pages with links to individual city, county, and traffic maps have been redesigned … Continue reading →

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Sep 05

TV map and county listings update

Posted on Friday, September 5, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The post I made a month ago about Gov. Branstad buying ads for the Keokuk-Hannibal-Quincy market served as an impetus/inspiration to update my Iowa TV station county-by-county list and station-by-station maps, which hadn’t had a good hard look for a … Continue reading →

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Sep 02

Way better than Kliff Kingsbury morphing into Charlie Weis

Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Despite the subject matter, it is not possible for me to hate this ad. (Flying over the map! Little icons!) Well done, Big Ten, well done. If you want to see the animation slowed down, and know something about HBO, … Continue reading →

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Aug 12

Muscatine renames short street, seeks reclassification of old IA 92

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM by Jeff

Last week’s Muscatine City Council meeting included two items of interest for map geeks. One was renaming a short stub of Cherry Street near Eighth Street to Juniper Street, and it looks like Google is already on it, which comes … Continue reading →

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Aug 04

Branstad’s ad buy isn’t just for Lee County

Posted on Monday, August 4, 2014, at 10:30 AM by Jeff

The Des Moines Register has found out a curious political-television item (bottom item) in the 2014 Iowa governor’s race: Gov. Terry Branstad’s campaign bought ad time in the Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk market. Technically, Lee County is the only Iowa county in this … Continue reading →

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Jul 17

Spirit Lake, Okoboji part of RAGBRAI “Okoboji” stop

Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The official route announcement in January was for the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa to stop in “Okoboji,” but the maps only show the route following A34 through Milford. It was the Iowa Great Lakes area as a … Continue reading →

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Jun 24

Conferences, apportionment, and the Big Ten’s population problem

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 27, 2009: Testudo, the University of Maryland’s mascot, before he was set on fire I have kept a link to my August 2012 “College Conferences and House Apportionment” post on the sidebar of this blog. I figured it would be … Continue reading →

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Jun 04

Tom Latham’s final map

Posted on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Now that the Republican primary for the U.S. House Third District has been held, it’s time for a look back at a well-traveled representative. Tom Latham moved from Alexander to Ames to Clive while representing 57 of Iowa’s counties at … Continue reading →

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May 22

2014 paper Iowa map now available

Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at 2:31 PM by Jeff

Just in time for Memorial Day, fresh maps are out for travelers, according to this press release from the DOT. (Also third item in this Quad-City Times roundup.) I have been to many of those “nooks and crannies”.

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