It’s been awhile since I have posted on this blog. I have been caught up in the midst of publishing my thesis works as a book which is now available for at amazon and trying to be adventurous during the harsh but still exciting Norwegian winter. A friend of mine asked me last week to help him plot locations of boreholes, that he is doing research on, to a decent map. I came up with a suggestion of creating it in R using Google Maps as a base map. Of course this could have been done easily and more aesthetically attractive using the conventional GIS softwares. It is more exciting and reproducible where the R script can be reused easily. ...

Online maps published by the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR), allow users to pinpoint the key environmental data and the main sources of air pollution from industrial facilities across Europe. The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the a Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. It replaces and improves upon the previous European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). The register contains data reported annually by some 28,000 industrial facilities covering 65 economic activities across Europe. The interactive map shows where certain pollutants are released from individual industrial plants. . The Europe-wide register aims to help Europeans actively engage in decisions affecting the environment. The map search option provides a geographical approach to the E-PRTR data. The map can even be viewed here in maximized version.

Google’s Geo Developer blog posted about five great maps developed based on Google Maps API. The list includes the renowned photo sharing tool - instagram’s app called InstaEarth, which makes use of the to help users discover instagram photography in a map. InstaEarth Another interesting application that uses the Google Maps API is the Submarine Cable Map from TeleGeography which makes use of the to generate map layers of submarine cable routes. The map also uses to customize the standard Google base maps for better visualization of the cable routes. ...

ITO World produced an impressive visualization video of the tremendous amount of mapping that has been done by the Open Street Map community on Berlin city. The video shows a white line each time a new route is entered or an old one edited. The video shows a growth of active participation in the OSM community. from on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/)

Google LatLong: Live traffic information for 13 European countries…

Green party politician Malte Spitz sued the German telecoms giant, Deutsche Telekom, to hand over the data recorded from his mobile phone on his whereabouts. The data revealed was stunning where the cellphone company has recorded and saved more than 35,000 location data from his mobile phone for the a period of six months which is about 78% of the time. It traced him where he worked, the cities he visited, the places he hang out , basically where he was at every moment of his life, in spite of that, Spitz never knew he was been tracked.Spitz made the data available to a German newspaper Zeit Online who produced a striking interactive map

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