{"id":4773,"date":"2014-04-14T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:52:40","slug":"county-counting-site-adds-interstate-guide-google-maps-overlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/county-counting-site-adds-interstate-guide-google-maps-overlay\/","title":{"rendered":"County counting site adds interstate guide, Google Maps overlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some enterprising user of the Mob-Rule.com county counting site has created a map that colors in every county in the country touched by an interstate. <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/user-gifs\/interstates.gif\">Here&#8217;s the map<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/user\/interstates\">here&#8217;s the page<\/a>\u00a0(to select by state). Major interstates have a color to them, while the rest are in default light blue. There&#8217;s one tiny omission: Putnam County IL, which is rather small, serves as the tip end of I-180.<\/p>\n<p>Also, and perhaps more importantly, the website has implemented an API that <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/gmap.html\"><em>projects county lines onto Google Maps<\/em><\/a>! Plug a city in on the link, and it will then render a map page with county lines. Since this is an add-on, it can tax the computer and bandwidth if you try to see too many at once.<\/p>\n<p>These can be handy for checking to make sure your map is accurate to your travels. However, if you&#8217;re just poking around here and there and want county lines (without Street View), Mapquest would still be the better site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some enterprising user of the Mob-Rule.com county counting site has created a map that colors in every county in the country touched by an interstate. Here&#8217;s the map, and here&#8217;s the page\u00a0(to select by state). Major interstates have a color &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/county-counting-site-adds-interstate-guide-google-maps-overlay\/\">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-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}