January 2025 – Page 2 – The Map Room

Daylighting Rivers

Published on 9 January 20259 January 2025 by Jonathan Crowe

Screenshot from a CBC News interactive story about daylighting rivers: an interactive map showing buried rivercourses on the Island of Montreal. — CBC News (screenshot)

Last April, CBC News ran an interactive, map-rich story about buried waterways in Canada’s large cities—buried largely for sanitary reasons—and initiatives to restore old and forgotten creeks and rivers to the surface. Focuses on Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, but there are links to other cities at the end.

California Wildfires, January 2025

Published on 8 January 202513 January 2025 by Jonathan Crowe

Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles:

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) has incident pages for the Eaton, Hurst and Palisades fires, plus this 3D incident map.
The Los Angeles Times map marks fire origins and evacuation zones.
Watch Duty is a nonprofit that also has an app.

Update, 3:50 PM EST (via Lauren Tierney):

Esri’s Wildlife Aware map sorts fires by personnel assigned to fight them.
Another 3D map from CAL FIRE.

Update, 10 Jan at 1:45 PM EST:

CNN has maps and other visualizations, plus before-and-after satellite and aerial photos.

Update, 13 Jan at 9:35 PM EST:

Good Maps of the L.A. Fires: “a summary of the geospatial industry’s efforts to map and analyse the L.A. fires over the past 5 days.” [via]