MapQuest added a new feature to its mobile app last week that allows users to turn on a “surveillance layer” to find Flock license plate readers in their route.

“Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras,” the post read.

Earlier this month, progressive lawmakers introduced legislation to ban federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The Ban Flock Act would stop federal agencies from using ALPR and pause federal grant funding to state and local governments with ALPR contracts.

The legislation would also allow Americans to sue the federal government for the use of ALPRs.

https://thehill.com/business/6156038-mapquest-adds-surveillance-layer/amp/

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I learned of something new today, the great America cruise loop... which means that since the whole thing can be done by water, the east coast is an island. (fact)

https://www.technomadia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/great-loop-cruisers-map.png
 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122171394656685151&set=a.122147333822685151
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10234782899187318&set=gm.10163066891933630&idorvanity=20222603629

a canoe with an odometer! When mapmaking in the everglades in 1897, Ed Brewer wanted to know exactly how many miles had been traveled

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10168508082232782&set=pcb.10168508083127782  via the Antique Overland facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1740495786660758/

Half of San Diego's map is marketing that stayed.

In 1955, Louis L. Kelton and Walter Bollenbacher bought roughly 1,000 acres from the Waring estate on the slopes above Mission Gorge and started building. Their construction business was called Allied Contractors. The tract they laid out became Allied Gardens

Kelton and Bollenbacher are also street names over of the 94 in emerald hills so they must have developed over there as well

Bollenbacher and Kelton built many tracts all over So. Cal. there's a few in the San Fernando Valley and in Santa Clarita.

another neighborhood use to be called Hallmark Homes and to the west that neighborhood was called Heritage Homes.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122136787623382848&set=a.122097576627382848

https://anderstomlinson.com/garden-2/low-water-garden/welcome-to-allied-gardens/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Gardens,_San_Diego

this indicates how critical one bridge can be

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122118454706985334&set=a.122104146776985334

one empire, with no computers, slide rules, calculators, university trained engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, road graders, dozers, excavators, dynamite, rebar, cement, etc... made more roads than any other ever had, or ever will... on three continents, over about 500 years, and many have lasted for millemium

the Roman road system, covering 186,411 miles

https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-map-of-roman-roads-ever-made-still-isnt-big-enough-2000811770

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Roman-road-system

https://www.history.com/articles/ancient-roman-roads-network

A ghost town named Goo... another was named Tunk - so there must have been enough odd named ones that it wasn't very unusual

Goo was likely located off of a railroad branch that extended from Boyne Falls area toward Alba. It doesn't sound like it was much of a town, more likely a logging camp or small settlement.

"Goo" appears in the Rand McNally Shippers Guide for Michigan, 1908 and 1917.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1282668961809379/permalink/28327162176933358

a neighborhood where all the street names are Harry Potter themed in Killeen Tx

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28445209455168858&set=pcb.2669292366879584

truly old roads from before Alabama was a state, there were at least four early roads that converged near Ardmore

their routes are highlighted here on a detail of the Limestone County 1914 Soil Survey Map. 

With the exception of the Mooresville Road, there's little reason to doubt the other three were viewed and marked along ancient trails, mostly established by animals following the paths of least resistance between their intended destinations.

 Along the right-hand edge of this image would have been a significant ancient trail that had fallen out of use long before 1815, but is likely picked up by the Elkton Road (green line).

 The earliest survey found that may have been of that road is from 1802, when Col Thomas Butler was commissioned to nominate a route for the first federal commerce highway, and he followed a "road no longer in use", starting about the intersection of today's Page Road and Post Road in Belle Meade, southwest of Nashville, passing through here, and ending at a ford on the Tennessee River, probably near the mouth of Indian Creek.

 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0PFpM3tyzZcrAAzTAvw9z4TZQQndTkgEUeXi81doRBQ6Lhq2rzkJ7kk3oeYrgz8gMl&id=100000289638801

a map of the remote and unpopulated areas... where it's more than mile to reach the closest road.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1613825026772866&set=pb.100044361527327.-2207520000

1940 Richard Harrison Map of the World According to Standard Oil

https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/standardoil-harrison-1940

clever ad!

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1595917948563574&set=a.610868297068549

if you happen to have time for a major road trip, and can take the opportunity to see some sights

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/infographic-the-great-american-road-trip-5908179

in an odd merge of themes, this one neighborhood in Mira Mesa has streets named for places in BC Canada, and stars

I found a set of streets named after fighter planes

only a couple miles from what was the NAS Miramar airbase, which is now MCAS Miramar

In 1958, the American Oil Company (AMOCO) released a pictorial map of space outlining some of the most bedeviling space-related puzzles of the age

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-do-we-know-about-space

there are about 4000 miles of city roads in San Diego. About 20% (680 miles) are within 500 feet of a school, and the city management wants to make traffic crawl to a halt around them.... seems no one got the message to stay off the roads unless you're a car

 https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/speed-limit-reduced-san-diego-road/3983062/

the electromechanical navigation system in the Ford Aurora I station wagon concept car at the 1964 Worlds Fair

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/cars-of-worlds-fair-1964-new-york-worlds-fair

interesting bunch of street names the developer arranged for this area of Mira Mesa, San Diego

Camino Ruiz, I believe is known as the Kings highway

Gold Coast

Mayor, Lady Bess

Royal Arms

Empress

Baroness

Embassy

Ambassador

Whoa, Nick made a seriously thorough collection of gas station maps!

Just one example, and the top half is the front, and the bottom half the back

another example. Each map shows what that oil company made for that year, and the collection is for other map owners to be able to have one site to look at with a nearly complete collection so they can  date their maps accurately

"a photo map dating website for Oil Company Road Maps, so map collectors and sellers can date their maps as easily and accurately as possible. Also, new and experienced collectors will be able to see what is out there to collect"

https://oilcompanyroadmaps.com/Home_Page.php