BNOB plan maps

Among the more impressive maps on view recently were the following.

The first is a map that appeared in the Bring New Orleans Back Urban Planning Committee report (35 MB PowerPoint file) which really delivers a powerful message by showing the extent of flooding in New Orleans overlaid on a satellite image of Washington, D.C.:



The other map of interest is a Times-Picayune composite of the different layers representing development areas in the BNOB Urban Planning Committee report:



1/16/06 update: Here's the download site for a compressed 6 MB version of the same BNOB PowerPoint presentation.