Sunday, December 2, 2018

Where exactly are places, cities, towns and villages in Palm Beach County? And why it matters.


And just one of the reasons why the City of Lake Worth City Commission is considering putting this question to the voters next year:

Renaming City the “City of Lake Worth Beach”.


And the City is considering this why? Because of so many irresponsible ‘reporters’ in the press and news media. However, the professionals at WPTV/NBC5 are excluded from that group.

Ever heard of the Geo Nav mapping tool? Learn more about that tool below which has multiple layers of information. After a few tries, in just moments, tons of information will be available. This mapping tool is extremely helpful in many fields including those in public relations, real estate, business community, and the press and news media to quickly discover the location of an incident and nearby landmarks and whether it’s in a municipality. Or not.

For example, when it comes to news reports about crime and other mayhem CBS12 recently and falsely reported about a stabbing ‘in Lake Worth’. This crime actually happened in either the Village of Palm Springs or unincorporated PBC, also called “suburban Lake Worth” (see Tweet below).

And CBS12 also reported recently that a homicide occurred ‘in Lake Worth’. That is also false. That homicide, which remains unsolved, occurred near the Village of Palm Springs at the Palm Beach State College (PBSC) campus in suburban (unincorporated) Lake Worth.

Now imagine for a moment a viewer of CBS12 who attends PBSC was in the area of that homicide and saw something that day. But they believed CBS12 when they reported this terrible crime happened in the City of Lake Worth to the east of John Prince Park.

Due to terrible news reporting could that one small tip have been the one that solved the murder of a young mother?


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Zip codes. One would think after all these years the press and news media would understand the concept of unincorporated Palm Beach County (white).

Too many times the press and news media does not take the time to accurately report the news.


It is very easy to verify and/or clarify if a press or news media story is accurate — or not — when reporting about any location in Palm Beach County

It’s called the Geo Nav mapping tool (link to site below) from the PBC Property Appraiser’s Office.

For example see the map below. Just by clicking on the “County Parks” tab (explained below) the County’s John Prince Park shows up as light green. Use the municipal parks tab and every park within a municipality will appear. Click on the “Municipalities” tab and each municipality shows up a different shade of color.

The areas not shaded? Those are unincorporated areas in Palm Beach County such as suburban Lake Worth. John Prince Park (site of recent plane crash) and the PBC Park Airport are both in unincorporated PBC. This County airport is not in the Town of Lantana but some still refer to it as the ‘Lantana Airport’. The nearest municipality is the City of Atlantis just west of Congress Ave.


Click on image below to enlarge.

See the legend in the top left?
Go to the Geo Nav mapping tool and click on
“Layers” tab (far left) and have fun!

The Geo Nav mapping tool will come in helpful for viewers of one TV news station in particular, CBS12 (WPEC):



Now go and check out the Geo Nav mapping tool for yourself.