There are a number of advantages to using Drupal for this website, most of which may not be evident at first. It is far easier to reuse content between the blog and the conventional website. Expect to see the site grow into something much better than it was before as it gets refactored using Drupal.

The page where you can sign up for the beta test and thereby get the download location is at http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/fp/beta-test-mapset.html This new variation of my "core" Forest Park map which uses a different approach to showing the topography and ground cover, more like the style of ma

A special evening celebrating the release of One City's Wilderness by Marcy Houle.

Join us for an evening of appreciation. To you, our donors, to the wonders of Forest Park, and to those who capture its spirit.

It's sad to have to remove Sahagun and See's off the map as they are no longer there. The "chocolate map" is a postcard map that I created Feb 12, 2007. I had noticed that there was practically a chocolate district spanning the Pearl and Downtown, and I thought it would be fun to propose a "Chocolate district walk" whereby you can visit all of them. The map shows six (formerly eight) chocolate shops within a ten block radius in Portland. The postcard has not been printed and distributed except my personal copies that I've given to the shop owners and friends.

"The folks at Metro make it easy to go on urban treks with their indispensable "Walk There!" guide, which has 50 walks throughout the area, including a number that are so obscure that even residents might not know about them. The guide comes in a handy 4 1/2-by-6-inch size -- perfect for sliding into the side pocket of your cargo shorts -- and is a bargain at $9.95 at area bookstores. Even better, Metro has the maps and detailed walk descriptions available online, making it a cinch to download and print maps to guide you to your newest urban adventure.

The exact date is not clear yet, but I'm guessing it will be available around the end of summer 2010. It's too early to nail down pricing, but since you will get a real physical product to hang on your wall, it will have to cover the cost of making it. The map has been updated in many ways Many thousands of tiny changes made: the map is currently at version 732; the one last posted on Art of Geography was version 618. Each increment to the version number represents a bundle of edits to the map.