L.A. Unfolded: Maps from the Los Angeles Public Library opened today at Los Angeles’s Central Library; it runs until January 22. “The exhibition focuses on Los Angeles and California and features topographic surveys, tourist guides, real estate maps, pictorials, illustrations and more. Highlights include a 1791 Spanish explorers’ California coast map; a 1975 Goetz Guide to the Murals of East Los Angeles; and Artist-Historian Jo Mora’s masterly illustrated 1942 city map. The exhibition draws exclusively from the Los Angeles Public Library’s own map collection, one of the largest collections owned by a public library in the U.S.” More at Angelenic. Via MAPS-L.

Webmapper explores the question of Tele Atlas’s questionable map quality and the reasons why Google may have dropped Navteq for ostensibly poorer map data — a question I raised in this post. An interesting post, but perplexing given its speculative nature; I thought that, unless I’ve missed something, Edward worked for TomTom, whose takeover of Tele Atlas closed in June. That caveat aside, go read.

Edward also says that my post reflects “a rather North-American bias. Google still uses map data from other providers as well, such as AND and Europa Technologies (small-scale world maps), Zenrin (Japan), PSMA (Australia), and MapABC (China).” I stand corrected; I was focusing on errors in my neighbourhood in the context of reports I’d seen about the Navteq-Tele Atlas switch.

The San Francisco Solar Map is a part of the city’s goal to have 10,000 roofs equipped with solar panels by 2012; it maps current solar installations and provides information for those interested in installing solar panels. Via Vector One; more information at Government Technology.

The CBC’s map of last night’s federal election results is, I think, much better than the Globe and Mail’s map, simply because you can see the riding boundaries and party colours, and at every zoom level, too. That’s a good map.

Harvard’s experts have concluded that the 1612 Champlain map being offered for auction at Sotheby’s next month is not their missing map.

Previously: Harvard’s Missing Map?