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Map Monday: Dakota and Ojibwe Place Names in Minneapolis

By on June 5, 2017 in History, Maps

Via Nick Magrino’s Twitter feed, here’s a map of Minneapolis with some indigenous place names. Dakota and Ojibwe languages are different. Minnesota and Minneapolis both feature the same root, the  word “mni”, which means “water.” (E.g. the Lakota phrase mni wiconi, or “water is life” one of the slogans from the Standing Rock movement.) Here […]

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Map Monday: Duluth as the Center of Half the Country

By on May 15, 2017 in History, Maps

Via Perfect Duluth Day, this is a funny map from a civic booster-era advertisement touting the centrality of Duluth in 1888. The cartographer drew a line separating the country into two geographic catchments, the Chicago half and the Duluth half of the USA. Sort of a fun line to draw, in a way. I guess… […]

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Map Monday: Hand-Drawn Map of North America, Minnesota Regional Edition

By on April 24, 2017 in Maps, Sketches

Over the last few years, a cartographer named Anton Thomas has been meticulously hand-drawing a huge map of North America, all the way from Nunavut to Panama. Of course it includes the Upper Midwest. The map is quite beautiful, massive, and full of whimsy. Here’s how Thomas describes the process: An ongoing pictorial map, The […]

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Map Monday: Noise Maps of Minnesota and the Twin Cities

By on April 3, 2017 in Environment, Maps

A while ago I came across an interactive noise map of the globe. Punch in a location and it pops up a map. Zooming out to a state-level seems to remove the noise data, this is a large as I could screen grab. Interesting to see this above noise map rates industrial zoned for consideration […]

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Map Monday: Twin Cities Multi-Family Density

By on December 12, 2016 in Housing, Maps

One of streets.mn’s loyal readers pointed me toward this great map from a recent report at last week’s Met Council meeting. Here’s the map:   Inside the metro urban service area, multifamily density averages 35 units per acre, whereas all housing (all types) averages 6 units per acre. It’s also interesting to see how many multifamily units […]

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Map Monday: The Great Twin Cities Megaregion

By on December 5, 2016 in Maps

Via James Russell on Twitter, here’s a bottom-up map that was generated from analyzing 130 million commuter patterns and narrowing those trips into a series of “megaregions” around the country. The end result, in multi-color glory: And another one showing clear delineations: A brief description of the methodology: Previously megaregions have been typically identified by […]

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Map Monday: Minneapolis Racial Covenants in 1951

By on November 28, 2016 in Housing, Maps, Race

Historyapolis‘ amazing work on the history of racism and real estate in the Twin Cities continues with this map showing racial covenants in Minneapolis over time. Here’s the cumulative total (so far!) from 1951.   Racial covenants were part of a suite of racist practices and policies that profoundly shaped Northern cities in the 20th century. […]

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Map Monday: Minnesota 2016 Presidential Election Results

By on November 14, 2016 in Maps, Politics

Here’s a map to ponder. It’s the state-wide county-by-county results map from last Tuesday’s election: [See also: the interactive version on the Secretary of State’s website.] For me, one of the big takeaways from the election is how stark the rural-urban divide has become. For many reasons, there is more division and disagreement between people who live in cities […]

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Mapping Renters and Owners in Central Saint Paul

By on November 9, 2016 in Demographics, Housing, Maps

If you ever attend a neighborhood meeting in Saint Paul (or probably any city), you’re likely to hear a lot about the perceived or actual animosity of homeowners against renters. For example, in my own neighborhood in the North End, a recent meeting drew some audible expressions of surprise when someone quoted the statistic that […]

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Many Prospects for Passenger Rail in Wisconsin

By on November 4, 2016 in Infrastructure, Maps, Railroads, Transportation

  In my most recent two posts I looked first at the opportunities I see for passenger rail in Minnesota, followed by an entry examining Norway’s passenger rail network to make some comparisons. There are similarities between the two such as the fact that Minnesota and Norway have about the same population and have been growing […]

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