{"id":1515,"date":"2012-03-27T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2012-03-27T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:53:27","slug":"map-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/map-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/maps\/\/msp\/pdf\/transmap.html\">The 2012 map went live online today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2012\/03\/26\/state-may-distribute-far-fewer-free-paper-maps-next-year\/\">Assorted sources<\/a> report that the number of maps printed <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/iowa\/iowa-house-cuts-funds-for-road-maps\/article_3dcdead0-7bab-55c1-be91-58a5463569e3.html\">was cut nearly in half <\/a>this year. This is not necessarily a bad thing as long as there are still enough. GPSs and smart phones won&#8217;t give you the size or large-scale detail you can get with paper. Each device has its place.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t scanned for corrections in a while, so it seems about time to re-check mileages around new four-lane segments.<\/p>\n<p>(Ironically, in the first link above, Radio Iowa reports the DOT says that drastically cutting the number of maps printed will increase per-map costs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 map went live online today. Assorted sources report that the number of maps printed was cut nearly in half this year. This is not necessarily a bad thing as long as there are still enough. GPSs and smart &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/map-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}