The world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB’s core technical activities.
State of Minnesota
+ Bridge Plans
Copies of engineering plans for bridge projects. For historical reference use, primarily by engineering firms and local government entities.
+ Bridges and Structures
Bridge CADD standards, special provisions, bridge management and bridge inspection
Full Text Book: Digital Bridges
Bridges of the 19th Century. Lehigh University.
of Every Bridge in the U.S. that has been rated as "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete," and carries at least 10,000 vehicles a day.
1. Choose a state on the map.
2. Scroll down below the map to "Click here to see major state bridges on list."
Background about the data and database here. Thanks to Bill Dedman for the news tip.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
