With the incredible footage of the Chelyabinsk meteor hitting the web and capturing everyone’s imagination last week, it follows that a few geo-geeks have reconstructed and mapped the path of the meteor. You can view the fruits of their labour here.

And with Meteor fever reaching levels not seen since Aerosmith was last in the charts, Google Maps mania has posted a collection of meteor-themed Google Maps.

Oh, and The Guardian has a great piece that contains a map showing where all known meteorite falls have occurred, excluding those places where meteorites may have fallen but not been discovered.

Not to go on about them all the time, but Google Maps Mania also has a post highlighting the recent changes to the Google Maps API that allows polygons to become draggable. The immediate benefit of this is to allow size comparison of various cities, and other geographical features. So, how much larger is LA compared to Sydney?

The All Points Blog points us to a New York Times article that discusses the challenges behind creating Garmin’s ‘real directions’ tool, which gives drivers navigation cues based on landmarks, similar to those given by people, such as “Turn right at McDonalds”, rather than “Turn right in 600 metres”.

The head of Location from Nokia has created a map of slightly rude place names from around the world. Great for a mid-week giggle.

The BBC has a report on a self-driving car that was given a test-run at Oxford recently. The car differs from Google’s offering, as it eschews GPS for laser-scanning, instead comparing its position to known, stored data of previous routes.

And, to finish off this week’s offering, there is a post from Map This! that tells you why the public hates your web map. A must-read for anyone involved in a public-facing webmap. Enjoy!