I’ve previously talked about China cracking down on illegal mapping, but The Register has a story saying that the hotline set up for dobbing in of illegal mapping has not yet received a single phone call.
The Map Room has pointed me to an interesting piece that the BBC posted, that says that Google is revising its maps of Rio de Janeiro, after city officials complained that its labels gave too much prominence to Rio’s favelas over the wealthier districts and tourist sites.
Those with longer memories than mine may recall that this week marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. Google Maps Mania points us to an interesting article (in Spanish) that uses Google Maps to take the reader on a virtual tour of the site as it exists today.
A translated version of the original article is available here.
And in other Chernobyl news, the ever entertaining Boing Boing has a piece outlining the different commemorative events that are happening around the world to mark the 25th anniversary of the disaster.
Continuing on the unfortunate theme of nuclear disaster, the Map Room has a post highlighting a map created by the US National Nuclear Safety Administration that shows the estimated first-year, long-term radiation dose in and around the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Following their recent Mashup and Ad Hoc mapping seminar, the Communica blog alerts us to a post over at the Lagen Spatial blog that shows how surveyors can quickly create a Google Map of survey data stored in a spreadsheet.
The WHERE 2.0 Conference was held in Santa Clara, California recently, with a focus on location technologies and trends in software development, business strategies, and marketing. If, like me, you weren’t able to jet off to the other side of the planet to attend, GPS World have posted a video collection of the most interesting talks from the event.
Update: Sydney blogger and spatial information strategist, Maurits van der Vlugt, has let SpatialSource know that he was on the ground at the conference and is posting reviews of its happenings. You can follow his WHERE2.0 posts here.
