tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244341152011-07-07T16:58:24.141-04:00I am a longtime student of planning issues, and now I am working toward certification in Geographic Information Science at Rowan University. This is the blog I am using for my GIS studies.Deborah Woodellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246071603689121183noreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24434115.post-26756311941119835072009-09-02T19:55:00.003-04:002009-09-02T19:58:47.786-04:00

... but you will find other features at my companion blog, Curb Cuts to Nowhere, as well as my blog on cemeteries and land use, Whistling Past the Graveyard. I also will be studying Discrete Math this fall for my GIS studies, and will be posting commentary about math, my studies and math in culture in general, at 1-1 does not equal 0. See you back here soon.

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Discovered in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey

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Is that a provocative enough title? I hope so. That's the issue I want to explore. When I went to college in the 1970s, learning how to cover meetings was among the first things we did as budding journalists. When we got out of college, we cut our teeth on zoning board and planning board meetings, while the seasoned reporters often got the glamorous jobs of covering politics, the county board

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The Federal Reserve of New York has released a map showing the delinquencies for both bank-card holders and mortgage holders.

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Citiwire.net's Rick Cole writes in his latest column that, as Commerce Secretary, Herbert Hoover championed the zoning laws we have today. Cole goes on to note that today's real estate collapse gives America the change to rewrite the zoning codes to solve today's sprawl-centered challenges.

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My new favorite site, Directions Magazine, has a great piece about how the media are employing GIS and maps to detail crime figures. This offers many great examples, and reinforces the type of reporting that can be accomplished using GIS.

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The Coalition of Geospatial Oversight, a subgroup of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Associaton, reports that some 30 congressional committees and 40 federal agencies have some sort of oversight roles in geospatial matters at the federal level, and suggests that the new Congress establish oversight in a single location in each the House and Senate.

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Some folks think the famed Detroit columnist can get a little schmaltzy, but this piece in the latest Sports Illustrated makes you want to cheer for the Motor City.

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The Boston Globe reports that thanks to GIS and other computer offerings, mapmaking has exploded in the past year.

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There are a handful of reasons why this blog has gone dormant in recent months -- not the least of which is the fact I was immersed in a 4-credit computer programming course that was required for my GIS certification. Another reason is the fact that I sometimes feel as if I am a tiny voice in the wilderness amid the growing (exploding?) field of GIS. With all of these experts out here, who wants

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Here's a piece from the Toronto Globe & Mail that details how the proliferation of online mapping opportunities turns everyday folks into amateur cartograpers. It could turn into the spatial equivalent of citizen journalism. It's an interesting turn of events.

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It's been a long, eventful summer. Hope it's been good for everyone. Here is the second in (what I hope is) a series of geo-type songs. Feel free to comment on this social commentary.River WindingRiver winding through this mill townMy hometown is dark by fourWinter coming, the mills have long shut downNo one's working anymoreI drove by McDonalds and a long line was followedFrom a posting today

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Every weekday, they offer a new map at National Geographic. This is a cool feature to check out.

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Thanks to the Planetizen folks for discovering this

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Well, the writer doesn't actually predict the death of the suburbs, but he raises some of the concerns that have been addressed elsewhere, including the earlier Atlantic Monthly article on the subject.

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Thanks to the folks at Planetizen for finding this post. It's June, so, besides being Gay Pride Month (yay!), it's now Public Participation in Urban Planning Month. I like the sounds of it. As I've written before, it costs way too much to join some of these organizations, so how can we citizens participate if we have to pay the grocery bill. Perhaps a movement is afoot ...

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You never know what you might find when you tune in to National Public Radio. I listened today to a "Talk of the Nation" interview with Bette Midler - the Divine Miss M herself - and while I've always been a fan of her music career, I was pleasantly surprised to hear of her New York Restoration Project, an effort she founded to re-green New York City. Divine, indeed! In fact, one of my passions

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I've blogged in the past a couple of times about North Carolina, which has surpassed my home state of New Jersey as the 10th most-populous state in the nation. One was an essay, reprinted from an earlier blog, urging North Carolinians to make sure to consider mass transit it their growth plans. The other was a post about people meeting to discuss the state in the 21st century. Now comes an

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Here's a piece about the (as-yet) failings of the New Urbanism movement to change our landscape, except on the periphery and a few other spots (we call this spot "anti-zoning"?). Some interesting points here. I wonder, too, whether the New Urbanists are "uncool," as this piece suggests, because they often are neo-traditionalists with a kind of back-to-the-future mind-set, perhaps even nostalgic.

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City planning officials in Oak Harbor, Washington, have opened a blog where citizens can comment on development issues. A local newsaper wrote a piece on it. This sounds like a worthwhile idea for all sorts of organizations; a good way to keep the citizenry involved.

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Found this at a Web site from Canada. Is it doable? There are some towns - early "garden cities" the likes of Radburn, NJ - where housing fronts greenery and driveways are in back. Worth doing?

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Welcome to a new, regular feature of Eclectic Pedestrian. While American popular music long has addressed social-justice issues, it less frequently directly addresses such topics as sprawl and development. My goal here is to begin a different type of conversation, one where geographers, planners and others in related fields can let their hair down a bit, perhaps pick up an air guitar instead of a

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The Pentagon has asked - and Google has complied - that the online mapper stop showing some Street View images of military installations, out of fears that national security could be compromised. The story is all over the Web. One from Reuters is as good as any to get a sense of what's going on.As you probably know, this is not Street View's first step into controversy. Other folks have

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Thanks to one of my fave sites, Planetizen, for directing me to this article from "In These Times," which notes how the Internet has made it possible for almost anyone to map almost anything. Just make sure there's enough work out there if I need to change careers, OK?

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I just started reading this article, from The Atlantic monthly mag, on how the combination of the subprime fiasco and the coming energy crisis will - some predict - help turn America's suburbs into a new slum. More on this later, after I read the piece.

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A while ago, I posted an essay I wrote on an earlier blog, imploring North Carolina not to become another New Jersey. It seems they are taking steps in the right direction -- at least some North Carolinians want to take steps in the right direction. A former state transportation secretary is proposing a series of ideas to help fund "urban transit" in 21st-century North Carolina, specifically,

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Here's an interesting post about Philadelphia's walkability factor -- and the need to do more in the area. In case this link goes away someday, pay close attention to this one, as well: WalkScore.com

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Now, here are some folks with a creative spark: This is a site with maps of the fictionalized island on the TV show "Lost."

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The Nashville Tennessean reports that Georgia and Tennessee could be headed for a border war -- literally. Georgia wants to redraw the state line northward about a mile, just far enough to allow Georgia to "tap into the waters of the dammed Tennessee River."

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The always interesting Brookings Institution is weighing in on a variety of subjects that the candidates ought to be talking about this presidential election season. Among its many position papers is one to rebuild Middle America (the geographic middle, not political), and includes some good ideas on sustainability, particularly on the "North Coast," along the Great Lakes:While other regions face

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The sluggish economy is among the factors affecting communities' efforts to go green, the New York Times reports. Other factors are legal/jurisdictional restraints and public resistance to change.

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This post originally appeared March 8, 2007, on my recently deleted blog, Faux-Pen Space:---Here's a link to a Penn State report on the biodiversity of urban parks. They studied 10 parks in the Northeast U.S. and found almost no common species -- except, I guess, humans:http://live.psu.edu/story/22534

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This post originally appeared Feb. 27, 2007, on my recently deleted blog, Faux-Pen Space:Found this trolling around the news world today. We at Faux-Pen Space play golf (we stop short of saying we're golfers), and we know a study like this has all sorts of ripple effects, including the need to mow more (and put more pollutants from gas mowers into the air), the need to fertilize more (and put

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This post originally appeared on May 24, 2007, on my recently deleted Faux-Pen Space blog:--As my aunt pulled up to a stoplight outside Durham, North Carolina, one afternoon last July, she told me that at one time, hers would have been the only car there. This time, six cars were ahead of her.More than once during my weekend visit, she remarked how the Triangle had built up in her 31 years of

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Mike Huckabee and I probably will never agree on the issues involving LGBT rights -- unless he has a revelatory vision and realizes how wrong he is on the subject.But the Arkansas governor, Baptist preacher and still-standing presidential candidate and I share some common ground: America's transportation system is broken and needs a good infusion of cash and commitment to get better.The other

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Here is my final map I created to show where the Rowan journalism majors are from, by county.

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Scroll down this page to Hour 2 on Wednesday if you want to hear a good discussion about walkability and sustainability. What *do* we do with King of Prussia? I suspect what we do what they want to do at Echelon...put in some mixed use. But it may take a generation to change minds...unless we run out of oil first!

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Thanks to National Public Radio, you can take a look, state-by-state, at how the primary process works in 2008.

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Because I don't want to lose the mapmaking skills I've gained, I created this map of the Rowan journalism majors. It's not totally final yet -- I need to work on some of the aesthetics -- but it ain't half-bad.

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The author Vincent Virga was featured during a segment of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" today, Wed., Dec. 12, talking about his new book, "Cartographia." Here is the link to the show, where you can listen to the program and view some of the maps from his book. He made several interesting points, one of which really struck me. He said mapmaking is about power -- those in power get to make the maps.

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With the Rowan public folders being their typical fussy selves, I have stored my final map at this location.

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Nearly there: Everything I want to do from here on out involves aesthetics, design, etc. Maybe changing the symbols (again!), realigning the main map to center it, etc. But I will be honest: I think this will work, if necessary.

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Here are some early snapshots of my final project, as of Friday, Dec. 7:This is an ArcGIS map of the .kml data imported from Google Earth of all 250 missile locations across the United States.This is a close-in shot of the East Coast/New Jersey areaThis is my tentative layout, using the default Layer Labeling.This is the same look, but with my own labeling. I removed the names of the counties I

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I came across this blog item from my work inbox. I subscribe to the daily feed of the San Jose Mercury News (they provided the best info when Knight Ridder -- meaning us at the Daily News and Inquirer -- went on the auction block in 2005-6), and this is from their tech writer, about Google Maps' new features.

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I didn't hear the segment in question, but apparently the folks at NPR's "Talk of the Nation" erroneously discussed that the Nile is the only river that flows south to north. To respond to their error, they invited Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer for National Geographic, to talk about "why people tend to think that rivers run south." The discussion came at the end of Hour 1 today, 11/28, which

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Here are the four maps for Exercise 10:New Jersey population densityNew Jersey physio-geographic featuresGeologic hazards of the Western United StatesRainfall, South Asia cities These could change between now and Monday, when they are due, but will be updated at these links. Please note, there was some printing trouble with the South Asia map on Wed., 11/28, which I will try to rectify by

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Here's a nice little animated (and slightly interactive) map of the upcoming around-the-world solo sailing race. Just a nice, quiet race -- all by your lonesome -- on the high seas for a few short months. No pressure: One foot on land or one foot on another boat, and BAM! you're out of the race.

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Thanks to my colleague Ed, for passing on this mapping site from the University of Pennsylvania. Looks like GIS for regular folks!Here is the home page of this site.

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Here is a link to my proposal for my final project. I also will hand it in on Monday.

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I had trouble coming up with something creative from the data presented for Exercise 9, but remembered seeing something in our text that I thought could be applied. I found a county-by-county chart from USA Today on how New Jersey went during the 2004 presidential election between John Kerry and George W. Bush. The Garden State is assumed to be a Democrat stronghold -- a blue state -- but

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Here's an interesting article about a new "development," Spring Arts Point, um, springing up in Philadelphia.

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Here is an interesting map about uranium sites in Indian country out West.

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Because I seemed to have some problems with my H drive -- a few things disappeared for a while -- I've also stored everything in this Yahoo! Briefcase file.

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Here is my latest final version of my page of four New Jersey maps. Everything is becoming more uniform and looking more as I want it. If time allows, I still want to work on my patches, maybe even some of my category numbers! This version slightly differs from what I am turning in, because of the difference in patches, classes, etc.

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This is my first draft of the New Jersey maps for Exercise 8. I probably will tinker with some of the legends and color bands, and I want to make them more uniform. It cannot be identical, because there are different numbers of classes, but the type and patch sizes can be more uniform. Many thanks to Dr. Hasse for clearing up the legend "chatter" problem!

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Here is a link to a new kind of online GIS specialist.....The data-delivery editor:

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There is nothing life-altering or earth-shattering in it (nothing I cannot recreate), but my class notebook has gone missing. I was in two places on Monday, Robinson 306 and the Geography Dept. conference room. If it shows up, I'd appreciate being told. Just leave a comment here, and I will let you know how to get it back to me.

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Hard to believe in this day and age that we still have to keep track of things like this! Scroll down to the interactive map and see for yourself.

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I still want to tinker with the legends, but here are the updated Gloucester County maps, as of Monday, 10/22:Gloucester Country transportGloucester County physical featuresGloucester County flood-prone areas

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I realized this weekend that an outsider looking at these maps would have no idea what they are, so I must add to my maps:TitlesLegendsMy name I intend to get to that on Monday, before class.

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Here are the three maps created for this exercise:Transport of Gloucester CountyPhysical Features of Gloucester CountyFlood-prone areas of Gloucester CountyI finally worked out the bugs. I originally was bleeped off at myself for not remembering to change the color of the roads until after I was done on Wednesday. I thought that if that's the worst thing I've done, then I'm fine.Then, I came in

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Check out my Yahoo Briefcase folder here to see 5 images of the same abandoned Nike missile site. Notice the varying land uses, including the 1930s aerial shot of the farmland.

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Here is another link for me to use

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Met up with a few old friends in class today -- Prime Meridian, the Cartesian coordinate system (with tag-along pals Sine and Cosine), and the Pythagorean theorem. Silly me, I once thought getting into journalism would keep me away from math; ha! and now the same is true for geography! Here we go.

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Here is my latest version of Exercise 4, a map marking elevation and population density in Washington Township, Gloucester County, NJ. As you can see, I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of the chatter amid the legends. We'll try to get that fixed. As for my critique of the cartographic design: As I expressed at the bottom of my map, the color scheme for the Elevation portion is not

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Here is a neat link that tells Inquirer readers what the home values are in their communities.Here is New Jersey, here is Pennsylvania, and here is Philadelphia.

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Tentative answers:3.1: There are 12 layers in scene 1.3.A: There are no layers of point data.3.B: There are two layers of line data: CN stream and Gloucester County roads.3.C: There are eight layers of polygons: watershed boundary, cn flood, cn wetlands, Rowan buildings, Rowan parking, Rowan paving, land use and each of the municipal boundaries.3.D: There are two layers of raster data: elevation

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These are some of the early questions I must research as I work on this project? 1. What were these sites before they were Nike bases? 2. How were they obtained? What happened to the existing users (and uses)? 3. What was the criteria for picking these sites: location? Access to highways? Populations? Topography? 4. Why were they closed? 5. What happened to the sites once they were closed? 6.

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At the height of the Cold War, a dozen anti-aircraft missile sites were located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, including six in South Jersey, the PH command center for the entire grouping among them. The sites contained either conventional weaponry, nuclear weapons or both. This is a rough map I found online that marks the sites. I would like to create something similar, focusing on South

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Someone's hard-earned dollars went toward telling us what we already know -- that traffic is bad and it's getting worse!

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The NPR program "Day to Day" had an interesting segment on the geographical and sociological differences between Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo.

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2.1. How easy did you find I-MAP NJDEP?I found it quite easily, and quickly made a link to it on this blog, so that I can search again.2.2. What kinds of data are available?There are dozens of categories, everything from congressional, legislative, county and municipal boundaries to contamination sites to open space to water bodies to streams to various demarcations of wildlife data.2.3. What

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Here is the link to an alternate public folder, in the event you or I cannot get all of the materials to the Rowan H drive.

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This is the semi-correct picture of my home from 2002, although I believe it was longer than that since I had my backyard pool torn down (it was cheaper to have it knocked down and hauled away than to fix all the nicks and dinks to make it functional).The purple line marks from the home to wetlands, a distance of a shade over 1,000 feet. And here is a link to this item in my public folder. Here

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This is the picture of where my house was (not) located in 1930. This is the link to this item in my public folder, and this is a wider view, complete with 2002 wetlands and 2002 body of water Penbryn Lake, or Penbryn Pond, created from a sand-mining pit.

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Here is the map I'm doing of my activities and travels for the week. You can also find it among the links to the left, titled "My activities map."

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Here is an important report on the effect of rising sea levels, complete with interactive visuals.

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Here is an interesting post from a blogger interested in seeing journalism survive in the 21st century. It's time to get authorities to provide lat & long with their information, so that mapping journalists can do their jobs.

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This and this are why I am in this class, and in this program. Here is something I could do for the Philadelphia Daily News; this is at the Arizona Daily Star.

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It was surprisingly easy to create a blog. This is one of a few that I've created, but it has been dormant forever.This should be easy to turn in assignments. I don't anticpate any problems.I also have a blog I created after taking Land Use, titled: whistlingpastgraveyard.blogspot.com, another (sadly) dormant blog about cemetery use in the United States.BiosketchGoogle Earth is a fun tool. I

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From the Associated Press:CHATTOOGAVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Poetry Tulip has vanished. So have Due West and Po Biddy Crossroads. Cloudland and Roosterville are gone, too. A total of 488 communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia’s official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.Here's a link to a Christian Science Monitor story on the situation. If this

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Voters in several states paved the way on Tuesday to help protect the little guy from big developers, passing laws to limit eminent domain. ED was OK when it was used only for things benefiting the public at large, such as highways, schools, bridges, but when the little folks are kicked out in favor of deep-pocketed builders, that's not fair. Let's hear it for voters in: Michigan, South Carolina

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You may have heard that the real-estate market has slowed. Forbes.com lets us know where it's really bad. http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/10/housing-bubble-metros-life-re-cx_tvr_1011restate.html Among the places cited is the Providence, RI, Fall River, Mass., area. I visited Fall River once, mainly because my birthday falls on the same date that Lizzy Borden's parents were murdered. There is a

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Another amazing study by the Brookings Institution, this time on land use in the 50 largest metro areas:http://www.brookings.org/metro/pubs/20060802_Pendall.pdf

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