LA.pm: la.pm map

[Robert Spier]

It's no fun unless we get lots of points on the map.  Here's
the first cut, no tweaking to make it pretty, or get the
perfect zoom.

Red=Work, Blue=Home

http://newbabe.mengwong.com/~rspier/lapm/map.gif

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:34:21PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote:
| 
| I thought it would be neat to see how we (la.pm) is distributed
| geographically around the region.  I'm going to do this with a service
| called Tiger, provided by the Census Bureau.  [1]
| 
| In order to do this, I need to know where everyone lives and works.
| Tiger takes Latitude and Longitude for it's coordinates, so thats what
| I'm asking you provide.
| 
| How do you find out where that is?
| 
| The easiest way I've found is to go to one of these websites:
| 
| http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi
| or 
| http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
| (The gazetteer will locate your zip code, which is close enough.)
| or
| Use Yahoo! Maps to find it.
| 
| A sample map, I did for a past employer, (after some manual cleanup)
| looks something like this:
| http://www.tarcweb.org/tarcweb/images/nj-nice2.gif
| 
| I figure I'll have red dots for "home" and blue dots for "work", or
| something like that.  I won't divulge the locations you send me, and
| the resolution of the map will protect your privacy.  A single dot
| will cover a large area.
| 
| If you send me something like the following, I'll put it into a table,
| and generate a map after I've got a few.
| 
| home: 34.186238 N 118.300898 W
| work: 34.171746 N 118.323148 W
| 
| -R, curious.
| 
| 
| Footnotes: 
| [1]  http://tiger.census.gov/