Mapping L.A.

Mapping L.A. is the efforts of a community to figure out just what it is.

LA has some 114 neighborhoods and the lines between them is not so obvious. In some cases, it is hotly contested. The city never officially designated these areas, even though the post office and many of it's residences have.

This is especially a problem for reporters. They need to accurately tell the location of events, but it this becomes difficult when one doesn't know where one is.

So the LA Times decided to crowd source the problem and created a project where they will be taking suggestions and drawing up a map of where all the little neighborhoods in LA actually are. They call it Mapping L.A.