The Homicide Study Drops Google Maps

The Los Angeles Times has relaunched its impressive Homicide Report. In the latest update the LA Times has decided to drib Google Maps as well as deed to the LeafletJS platform.

Since 2007 The Homicide Report has been mapping as well as blogging virtually homicides inwards Los Angeles. The map allows readers to persuasion a map of homicides inwards the city. It includes the selection to filter the homicides past times neighborhood, elbow grease of death, race/ethnicity, age, sex as well as past times hateful solar daytime of the week.

The map includes a slap-up mark clustering arrangement that non exclusively shows the full lay out of homicides inside each clustered mark simply the markers are besides sized to reverberate the lay out of homicides inwards a metropolis neighborhood.

Mapping La's Pollution

The Los Angeles Times has released a cracking mapped visualization of the city's pollution. The CartoDB powered map uses Nokia Here map tiles amongst information from the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Pollution Burdens provides oestrus maps of a set out of pollution concerns inwards Los Angeles, including ozone concentration too drinking H2O quality. You tin click on the map to persuasion pollution levels for each pollution category for whatever census tract inwards California.

The Dogs Of La

There are a lot of piddling Princesses on the Dogs of L.A. map. The map uses information from Canis familiaris licences to map the most pop Canis familiaris names too Canis familiaris breeds inwards Los Angeles neighborhoods.

The pinnacle iv most pop Canis familiaris names are Max, Bella, Lucky too Princess. The most pop breeds of Canis familiaris are Chihuahua, Labrador, High German Shepard too Terrier. You tin switch the labels displayed on the map to demonstrate the most pop Canis familiaris names past times neighborhood or to demonstrate the most pop breeds.


If yous are to a greater extent than enamored past times the feline diversity of identify pet therefore yous mightiness prefer to sentiment this impressive truthful cat stalking map.

I Know Where Your Cat Lives displays pictures of cats on a Google Map. The pictures of the cats come upwardly from pop photograph sharing websites too the locations are based on the information hidden inwards truthful cat photograph metadata.  I'm guessing that the map is partly intended equally a alert virtually sharing your personal information online (or possibly its simply a alert virtually sharing your cat's personal information online).

The California Pollution Map

Back inwards Apr the LA Times mapped pollution inwards the urban center based on data from the California Environmental Protection Agency. The Pollution Burdens map provided a visualization of a release of pollution concerns inwards Los Angeles, including ozone concentration in addition to drinking H2O quality.

The LA Times has immediately released a novel pollution map of California using information from the California Environmental Protection Agency. The CEPA has scored census tract areas past times their exposure in addition to vulnerability to pollution. Using the California Pollution Risks map yous tin persuasion the scores for whatsoever census tract inwards the dry reason nether a release of dissimilar pollution concerns.

Users tin choose a criteria from the drop-down carte du jour in addition to and thence mouse-over whatsoever census tract to persuasion the CEPA grade for the area. You tin too piece of occupation the search box to respect a specific census tract on the map.

The Rapid Beating Middle Of La

LA Metro Movement is an animated map of LA's Metro Rapid buses. The map shows the routes of LA's Rapid omnibus lines alongside the recorded locations of the city's buses beingness animated every bit they carry passengers across the city.

I don't know anything almost the creation of this map then I'm guessing that the map is using the place information from 1 or ii hours out of a unmarried day. If you lot follow a unmarried animated point on the map it doesn't look to locomote really far inwards each footstep of the animation. So unless it takes 24 hours to cross LA past times omnibus this map is providing a snapshot inwards fourth dimension of the city's omnibus network inwards action.

It's nevertheless a keen mapped visualization of transit information as well as a keen demo of CartoDB's Torque library inwards action.

Mapping Hitting In Addition To Piece Of Occupation Inwards L.A.

Between 2002 in addition to 2012 the overall unwrap of hit-and-run accidents inwards Los Angeles County dropped yesteryear 30%. That's the practiced news. The bad intelligence is that during the same catamenia the unwrap of striking in addition to run accidents involving cyclists rose 42%.

The Los Angles Times has mapped all 661 striking in addition to run bicycle accidents in addition to 901 pedestrian accidents inwards L.A. from 2002 in addition to 2012. The L.A. Hit in addition to Run Map tin grade notice hold upwardly filtered yesteryear twelvemonth in addition to yesteryear bicycle or pedestrian victims. The severity of the injury from each striking in addition to run accident is shown yesteryear the color of its marking on the map.

The L.A. Times analysis of the information reveals that almost 20% of the hit-and-runs involving bikes "occurred inwards v neighborhoods: Long Beach, Santa Monica, downtown Los Angeles, Van Nuys in addition to North Hollywood".

Mapping La's Arts & Culture

The Art for LA Cultural Asset Map is mapping cultural resources along LA's Metro lines too municipal & schoolhouse district boundaries. The map shows the locations of Los Angeles' museums, galleries, libraries too theaters.

The map likewise includes the selection to thought the city's transit lines too schoolhouse districts. By including schoolhouse boundaries Art for LA promise to break where mutually beneficial partnerships could endure cultivated betwixt schools too nearby cultural organizations.

The map allows y'all to filter the results shown on the map past times cultural dependent area too past times lines too boundaries. It is likewise possible to filter the map past times type too size of cultural organisation too past times dissimilar types of fine art activity.

Closing America's Ports

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dispute betwixt dock unions in addition to port government inwards the USA has led to the most consummate shut-down of a quarter of the United States' international trade. Seaports on the westward coast of the U.S., which commonly procedure simply about 25% of the country's international trade, are existence closed for the side past times side 4 days.

Marine Traffic shows a large set out of cargo vessels off the coast of Los Angeles, presumably waiting for the port to opened upwards again. I'm non certain how many container ships are usually waiting exterior the Los Angeles in addition to Long Beach ports but the Financial Times reports that at times final calendar week in that place were twenty container ships waiting exterior the ports, "compared amongst the normal i or two".


The Pacific Maritime Association final calendar week temporarily suspended the unloading of ships, disceptation that they needed to clear a backlog of containers inwards the alluvion yards. The International Longshore in addition to Warehouse Union responded past times hiring a plane in addition to releasing aerial photos of what look to hold out many empty yards.

The PMA are refusing to opened upwards the ports from Th through to Mon because they don't desire to pay overtime to the dock workers. The port owners claim this is inwards reply to the fact that the dock workers accept significantly slowed their charge per unit of measurement of move over the final few months.

Marine Traffic shows a large set out of container ships are likewise obviously waiting off the coast close the ports of Oakland, in addition to Seattle & Tacoma.

The Mapped Bespeak To Walking Inward L.A.

It isn't truthful that no 1 walks inwards Los Angeles and, despite all claims to the contrary, at that topographic point are roughly swell places to walk inwards the city. To assistance you lot detect those swell walks the Los Angeles Times has created the L.A. Walks Map.

The map features walks which have featured inwards the newspaper's monthly L.A. Walks series. If you lot select a marking on the map you lot tin sentiment details on the length, fourth dimension as well as difficulty of the walk. If the walk takes your fancy you lot tin thence click through to read all well-nigh the walk, every bit featured inwards the L.A. Walks series.

The amount article on each walk includes step-by-step directions for the walk, details well-nigh roughly of the sites you lot tin meet along the road as well as photographs taken on the walk.