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Data: Health and Welfare

Rainbow has 35 California stores impacted by lead violation notices (map)

October 2, 2010, 9:01 AM
The attorney general has issued five violation notices against Rainbow Apparel stores and its 5-7-9 locations in California for repeatedly selling jewelry with lead levels that exceed legal limits. Find the store locations here. + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

L.A.'s neighborhood crime, mapped and analyzed

October 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
The Los Angeles Times added crime statistics to its Mapping L.A. project yesterday, giving readers an easily understandable view of crime in their neighborhood. "Using daily reports from the LAPD and L.A. County Sheriff's Department, The Times is providing a comprehensive stream of... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics, General Assignment

Are Californians screwed for the long term?

September 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
A new report maps out the different scenarios in which California can emerge from its current state of crisis. It also seeks to engage all Californians, hoping citizens of the state will thoughtfully explore the issues and potential solutions to the problems the state faces. Dubbed "... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Map viewer simplifies browsing government map data

September 16, 2010, 12:21 AM
A new online map viewer makes it easy to browse free map galleries and hook into several public map databases. The viewer from Esri allows you to hook into public ArcGIS servers.  From within your browser, you can paste a URL into a box and see all the maps available on the... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Archive digitizes more than 22,000 historical maps

July 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
The David Rumsey Map Collection opens up thousands of rare 18th and 19th century maps to the public. There are multiple ways to view and use the maps. In particular, the Luna Imaging's Insight software used to view the maps online is remarkably fast and useful. It's a huge improvement over... + read more
Map of largest oil spills, 1901 to present
Daily Report: Environment

Kern County's gusher tops Gulf oil spill – so far

June 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
With the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spewing out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, ChartsBin put together a map showing the largest recorded oil spills since 1901. According to their research, an oil well in Kern County blew in the early 1900s, creating a gusher of oil that wasn't under... + read more
Spotlight: Health and Welfare, Public Safety

Counting medical marijuana delivery services

June 5, 2010, 7:52 PM
How many medical marijuana delivery services operate within the Golden State? Neither government officials nor industry experts know for sure, but here is how we estimated these fast-changing figures. + read more
Daily Report: Environment

How your vacation photos turned into one man's art

June 4, 2010, 12:12 AM
Tag, you're art. Eric Fischer took photos from Flickr and Picassa that were pegged to a certain location and mapped them. The result is in artistic rendering of the central places where people took photos, geotagged them and then shared those pics on the Web. "The maps are... + read more
Spotlight: Health and Welfare, Public Safety

MAP: Medical marijuana delivery services in California

June 3, 2010, 9:05 PM
Is there a medical marijuana delivery service operating in your area? Use this Google map to find out. + read more
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