Friends from the Mid-80s–Antioch, CA
Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing posted this video of some old friends of mine from way back. Laden with nostalgia, I found these in some old boxes of
July 24, 2014
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Conspiracy Theories
July 9, 2014
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Bay of LA–Other Sea Rise Levels
As a follow-up to the Bay of LA map, here’s an animated gif of progressive sea level rise in the LA Basin.
July 7, 2014
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Islands of Portland
Welcome to Greenhouse Earth–Portland edition. The Portland archipelago awaits your descendants. This map has been updated! Here’s the old Portland map Update: Someone pointed out these
July 7, 2014
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Bebb & Gould Regent’s Plan for the UW, 1915-1945
The Bebb & Gould plan for the University of Washington–updated nine times between 1915-1945. North is left. This plan is a great display of both
July 5, 2014
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A History of the UW in 120 Frames
I love watching things change over time. Buildings, landscapes, street grids–everything morphs with changing technologies and cultural priorities, and time-enabled mapping can help us visualize
May 1, 2014
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GeoSIMS–An Application for Interior Mapping
In my years at the University of Washington, my greatest accomplishment was envisioning, designing and managing the implementation of GeoSIMS–the Geographic Space Information Management System.
April 28, 2014
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Seattle Archipelago in the Media
Even though I’ve only made nine posts on this blog, I’m going to get all self-referential. What happened with the Islands of Seattle map was both thrilling and
April 23, 2014
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Moving to WordPress.org
This site hasn’t been up long, but I’ve started finding limitations in what I can implement in my WordPress.com site. So, I’ve packed it up and
April 18, 2014
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Portland, 1905
The thing to remember about this early 20th-century Portland map is FORESHADOWING… What stands out for me when I look at this map are the lack of
April 15, 2014
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Los Angeles, 1928
This one’s for all my LA folks… One of the things about being between jobs is that you get to find little projects to obsess
April 10, 2014
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City of Seattle, 1908
Every once in a while, here at Spatialities world headquarters, our research department (me) runs into an old archived map that our marketing department (also me)
April 7, 2014
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UW Transportation, Past and Future
As part of a recent historical research project, I georeferenced a ton of old plans and maps of the University of Washington campus and surrounding
January 9, 2014
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Sunrise over the UW
Winter morning views from the office can be awesome (in the true sense of the word).
January 7, 2014
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Planning for Safe Routes to School
The McDonald International School re-opened in 2012, after 31 years of being mothballed and leased out to various NGOs. Even though the school is in
January 6, 2014
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