Today, the Los Angeles City Nerd (la_city_nerd) has an interesting entry about a tool in the engineering department of the Los Angeles Department of Public Works (LA-DPW) called EASIS (Engineering Automated Street Inventory System). EASIS permits you to look up any street in the City of Los Angeles. What is interesting is the information you get when you click on the picture. No, you don’t get a map; rather, you get images of record cards that give you the dates each segment of the street was added to the city. You also get interesting information, such as vacated segments, former routings, tract numbers for each segments, former names. As an example, here’s the result of a query on Lankershim Blvd. The images show the street was added to the city starting on 05-22-1915 and ending on 02-28-1929.
Fascinating. I could play with this for hours.
