My Hometown in LA

The map above was copied from maps.google.com. It shows the area of Los Angeles where UCLA is located, as well as my current residence (marked by the red dot in the left of the map). The upper right portion of the map is none other than the UCLA campus, however, only a portion of it it is displayed. For this map I used the "traffic" option which highights the traffic status. The yellow/orange color shown on the 405 freeway tell the map reader that there is medium traffic. One thing I noticed about the streets of Westwood is that there is no apparent pattern between them. Usually, cities use some form of the "grid system," which are straight streets with 90 degree angles at all the intersections. This is not visible in Westwood, with the exception of the far left of the map. Now I realize why Westwood is such a hard area to give directions to someone.