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San Diego & California

This guide will provide you with information and sources to support research on San Diego and the state of California. Click on the tabs above or the links on this page to access demographic data, newspapers, government info, resources.

California Maps

California Maps

U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management provides maps of California. This includes maps, brochures, and data.   

California State Park GIS Data and Maps

California State Parks generates eight GIS datasets intended for free distribution and personal or public use. These datasets include: Park Boundaries, Routes, Buildings, Structures, Day Use Areas, Camping Areas, Parking Areas, and Park Entry Points. 

CalTrans Quick Map

The Caltrans QuickMap web page presents several types of real-time traffic information layered on a Google Map. The information includes traffic speed, lane and road closures due to construction and maintenance activities, incident reports, Changeable Message Sign (CMS) content, camera snapshots, and active chain control requirements.

San Diego Maps

City of San Diego Maps

Interactive maps and historical mapping documents about the City of San Diego. 

San Diego Promise Zone Maps

In 2016, the San Diego Promise Zone became one of 22 federally designated Promise Zones in the United States and one of only four in California. The San Diego Promise Zone covers a 6.4-square-mile targeted area that spans East Village and Barrio Logan east to Encanto and is home to the City’s most culturally rich and ethnically diverse neighborhoods, but also some of the City's most under-resourced communities. More than 80,000 San Diegans live in the Promise Zone, an area historically burdened by the City's highest concentrated poverty and unemployment rates.

San Diego Communities

Map of communities within San Diego. The City of San Diego is divided up into 52 community planning areas.  

 

Image take By City of San Diego - https://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles