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Reminiscent of this post describing Scottish officials warning ambulances not to trust satnavs, come this story from Australia. After several incidents were motorists were lead onto unsuitable roads in rural areas, The Age newspaper reports:
Police are…

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The prolific Virender Ajmani from the Mibazaar blog has produced two Google Maps showing the life journeys of Barack Obama and John McCain from birth to … well probably the White House for one of them.

• Barack Obama’s Journey to the White House
• John McCain’s Journey to the White House

Both maps can be set to autoplay or manual. When set on autoplay the map automatically animates from one stage of a candidate’s biography on the map to the next. Both Obama and McCain are better travelled than many past presidential candidates so this geographical biography of the candidates works very well.

Both life journeys are also available as Google Gadgets. Download the gadgets to your iGoogle page here:

• Barack Obama’s Journey to the White House
• John McCain’s Journey to the White House

Related:

• Barack Obama’s Life Journey on Google Maps
• MapTheCandidates.com: ‘08 U.S. presidential election mashup
• Google Map of 2008 Presidential Contributions
• Wikipedia: Iowa Caucus

For more Google Maps elections mashups, click the label below..

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Police and others in Dover, Delaware are now using GIS to better respond to issues related to the large crowds that come to town twice a year for the races. Credit is given to “Gary Nowak, the city’s new geographic information system chief,” for writin…

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A couple of weeks ago I was commenting to our imagery team that the area around Mt Rushmore would be a great addition to our Birds Eye library; its one of the most recognizable landmarks in the US, but because of its remote location i guessed that only a small percent of folks had visited in person to see it and explore the area. now just a couple of weeks later I see it pop up in Birds Eye. I didn’t realize i had that kind of influence with the imagery team

The West view is pretty amazing. South is OK too, for seeing some of the behind the scenes goop on the mountain.

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