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Forest bathing at the University of Washington

The tri-campus Forest Bathing map represents the collective action of the UW Sustainability Action Plan Engagement Committee. Forest bathing is a simple relaxation activity for people of all ages to de-stress and boost their health and well-being.

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King County Lidar Swipe Viewer

Lidar is an aerial scanning method that can produce detailed representations of the earth’s surface. The Lidar Swipe map viewer is designed to provide users a simple means for viewing a shaded-relief image that was made from lidar data. The viewer shows a King County-maintained mosaic of lidar data that has been collected in various…

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King County Metro System Map

Use this simple map viewer to see an overview of the Metro System Map. Pan and zoom for a closer look anywhere on the map, find your current location, search for an address of landmark, create bookmarks, and print your map view.

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King County Parcel Viewer

With Parcel Viewer 2.0 searching for King County parcel information has never been easier! You can search by address, search by parcel number, or you can just zoom in on the map and click on a parcel. You can also select and zoom to a street intersection. Once a parcel is selected, you will get…

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Lack of Sidewalks in Seattle

​This map from the Urbanist highlights the roughly 900 miles (28% of city blocks) without any sidewalks in Seattle.

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Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

The University of RIchmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab compiled historic maps and data of redlining practice in 150+ cities across the country in an interactive format.

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Mapping Seattle’s Noise Complaints

Trulia used CartoDB and its spatial-temporal visualization tool to map police data on noise complaints from Seattle going back to 2010. Not surprisingly the U-District, Downtown and Capital Hill are the noise complaint winners…or losers depending on how you look at it.

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Seattle Police Department Data Maps

These maps shows all the Police responses to 9-1-1 calls within the city up to the last 24 hours. To protect the security of a scene, the safety of officers and the public, and sensitive ongoing investigation, these events will populate the map only after the incident is considered safe to close out.

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Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development GIS

​This interactive GIS map published by Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development makes essential GIS layers easily accessible. A few of the base layers include: building outlines, contours, parcels, pavement edges, and tree canopy cover. Zoning and environmentally critical areas are also highlighted, including layers for areas that are: flood prone, susceptible liquefaction, wetlands, steep…

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Seattle’s incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces

With the birth of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley a decade ago, the number of accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces has increased exponentially over the past decade, with more than 200 in the U.S. alone today. Geekwire has collected Seattle’s 55+ accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces in this post, complete with map.

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Shaping Seattle: Buildings

This interactive map from the Seattle Department of Planning and Development shows building projects throughout Seattle. Images, design proposals and projected timelines are provided for most of the sites.

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Stewardship Mapping in the Seattle Area

The goal of stewardship mapping in the Seattle area is to reveal the impacts of environmental stewardship by identifying and mapping all participating organizations. What kinds of organizations participate in environmental stewardship? Where do they work? How do they work together?

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Visualizing Cities – An Open Platform

Visualization as a tool for analysis, exploration and communication has become a driving force in the task of unravelling the complex urban fabrics that form our cities. This platform tries to bring together urban visualization projects from around the globe.