Seattle redesigned its transit maps to help riders find out about bus and train frequency. Speaking last month at an Ignite Seattle talk, mayor Mike McGinn stressed that the city needed to find ways ...

Ever wonder if you’ll be at risk during a natural disaster? Now there’s a map for that. The map details how Seattle’s neighborhoods will be impacted by earthquakes, tsunamis/seiches, liquefaction, ...

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 ...

What if you could use a map to see into the future? That’s the idea behind “Seattle In Progress,” a new mobile web app that uses construction permits and design proposals to show how the city will ...

Several cities offer online maps showing where various types of crimes have been committed. However, the map recently deployed by Seattle is one of the few to offer links to redacted police reports.

This time last year, Seattle's craziest intersections were getting their day in the sun. Peter Gorman first started drawing minimalist maps of cities when he was biking around the country. In each ...

The Seattle Band Map, a fast-growing online project that works like an interactive game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" for the city's robust music scene, started with a single circle. Rachel Ratner, ...

IN THE MORNING, the mapmaker thinks of his dad and things now gone. All around him are signs of change: the high-rises creeping in on his one-story Belltown office, the street closures, cranes and ...