Minneapolis Bike Map Google Earth Overlay

In the past few days I've been doing a lot of biking and studying a lot of maps. I had the idea to draw a map of all Minneapolis bike paths and bike lanes into Google Earth, but it turns out that wasn't necessary due to the awesome Image Overlay function.

I simply converted the PDF map available from the City of Minneapolis website to JPEG and, using some points of reference, overlaid it precisely where it belonged in Google Earth.

You can easily add this overlay to Google Earth by downloading and opening the following file:

Minneapolis Bike Map.kmz (5.2 MB)

The key is visible in the upper-right of the map image. Basically, green lines are bike paths and blue lines are bike lanes. The opacity can be adjusted by right-clicking on the overlay in My Places and selecting “Get info...”.

Enjoy!

Final Papers

At times it seemed like it would never be over, but the semester has finally come to a close.  The last few weeks involved lots of stress and occasional feelings of hopelessness, but everything turned out well in the end.

I thought I would share some of the fruits of my labor, in case anyone is interested...

The first (in Spanish) is a translation of Chapter 2 of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth titled "What happens during labor" (haha, get it?  fruits of my labor?)

The second (also in Spanish) is about children of immigrants who are used as interpreters for their parents who don't speak English.  It discusses research done about them and the implications for other sociolinguistic topics such as language maintenance and change, language attitudes, and bilingual education.

The third (in English) is about marriages and transnationalism.  It discusses transnational endogamy (immigrants "importing" marriage partners from the country of origin) and intermarriage (immigrants marrying someone from the dominant culture of the host country), and their effects on integration and maintaining ties across borders.

The last (and sure to be the most controversial) compares and contrasts disaster capitalism, as described in Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine, and the Bahá'í Faith.

Comments are welcome.  (Plagiarism is not.)