THIS SUMMER you couldn’t walk a block in downtown Seattle without seeing it: the brightly colored map of downtown seemed to be in every back pocket, clutched in every hand, spread out and scrutinized ...

Landslide hazard mapping has made big strides, but the public still must rely on piecemeal mapping and incomplete data to ...

Usually on “All Over The Map,” heard Fridays on Seattle’s Morning News, we take, as Dave Ross says in the intro, “a quick look at the stories behind the names of local places.” This week, you can be ...

Seen something strange in Seattle? Felt something you can’t explain, like a mysterious presence on a Georgetown porch, a canoe that seems to be paddling itself, a haunting hum on Vashon Island — or a ...

City of Seattle leaders know of roughly 380 chronic homeless encampments across the city, but they don’t plan to immediately publicize their list — or tell the public which camps they think are most ...

Seattle has a history of running out of gas when it comes to building out a truly robust public transit system. The Forward Thrust effort to get light rail in the late 1960s and early 1970s ran off ...

It was clear during WWDC that Apple is forging ahead with its Maps app at full-speed. Not only were several interesting refinements to the app and its underlying data announced during the conference ...