HERE’s 360 blog profile is the fantasy map maker that created maps for George R R Martin’s marvellous A Song of Ice and Fire saga, and its subsequent (also marvellous) TV Show, Game of Thrones.

The ever-interesting O’Reilly Radar has a post marking the 10th anniversary of Open Street Maps, charting its growth, its maturity, and comparing its data to other providers. Happy birthday OSM! 

Wired has posted an interesting article on ‘the evolution of location marketing’.

Google Maps Mania shows us a map created by Yale University that compares air pollution across the world.

LiDAR News links readers to a great primer on thinking about BIM, specifically explaining ‘What BIM is not’.

In one of the more impressive/nerdy efforts undertaken by a blogger, Johan Van de Wauw has turned his Android phone into a full GIS workstation by installing Debian on it.

Yet another map from Google Maps Mania shows an animation of 10 years of car crashes across Tasmania.