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 ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Sep 16, 2011 at 2:55 pm ...

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, ...

Seen something strange in Seattle? Felt something you can’t explain, like a mysterious presence on a Georgetown porch, a canoe that seems to be paddling itself, a haunting hum on Vashon Island — or a ...

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 ...

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 ...

We all know Seattle is packing in lots more people. With more construction cranes operating here than in any other city, dozens of new high-rises are filling up with people where vacant lots once ...

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 ...