Category Archives: Maps

Aug 17

County color conundrum

Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Charting counties chronologically comes with a catch: Now what?

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Jul 28

Google mangles Maps, again

Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

In the current tech contest to make any website unusable for anyone with a real computer and worse than 20/15, 500-shades-of-gray vision, Google has taken a whack at Maps — and I mean whack in the East River sense. So … Continue reading →

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Jul 06

West Des Moines adds quadrants, sort of

Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Jason Hancock noticed that an exit on the IA 5 bypass in West Des Moines is now Southeast 35th Street instead of just 35th Street. (For a short time after the bypass opened, it had a Polk County designation instead. … Continue reading →

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Jul 05

Classic, good Mapquest going away

Posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

I predicted this was going to happen. A website that I’ve been using since the 20th century is being shut down, and while the name continues, it’s not really the same. (It also may mean that no Internet mapping site is … Continue reading →

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Apr 05

Full RAGBRAI map printed

Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Since I made the point that the Register had not printed a single continuous RAGBRAI map as it usually does at the beginning of March, it is only fair that I follow up now that a guide to the route … Continue reading →

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Mar 15

RAGBRAI map analysis, in dribs and drabs

Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

For the first time in decades at least, the full RAGBRAI route was not printed as a single map in The Des Moines Register. This year, the Iowa Life cover on the first Sunday of March was about… prom styles. … Continue reading →

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Feb 22

Carving up Farragut

Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The eastern quarter of Fremont County, including the towns of Farragut and Imogene, will become part of the Shenandoah school district next year. The Iowa Department of Education released its plans for the Farragut district, which will be forcibly dissolved … Continue reading →

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Feb 09

There is a piece of Vermont that sticks into New Hampshire

Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

A combination of having politics and state borders on the mind… The Connecticut River forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire, two states that would fit comfortably inside Iowa. Halls Creek forms the western part of the border between … Continue reading →

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Feb 05

Sullivan’s corner on the Iowa-Missouri line

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Along Iowa’s southern border, a string of nearly forgotten iron posts marks where Iowa ends and Missouri begins. The westernmost marker, once the northwest corner of Missouri, is today at the southernmost point in the slightly bent line west of … Continue reading →

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Jan 27

’11 maps that explain the Iowa caucuses’

Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Maps maps maps! Of course I have to link to this. The report from America magazine, a Catholic-focused publication, has county-by-county breakdowns of recent election results and what I’ll call election-adjacent information. The caucuses are one of the few times, … Continue reading →

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