Yahoo! Local Maps BETA : http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/index.php is now including live traffic reports designed to let you know where congestion, construction, and accidents are slowing things down on your commute. (To display traffic reports, just click on the “Live Traffic” checkbox on top of the map next to the “Send to Phone” link. ) Via : http://www.lifehacker.com/software/maps/index.php

Client applications can use the JSAPI in several ways to control navigation and display of maps in custom ways. CWC2 http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=CWC2JavascriptAPI.html provides the capability to create very complex applications using just templates and existing widgets.

THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE PICTORIAL MAPS : https://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/1571/1/etd-tamu-2004C-VIZA-Naz.pdf

Map of Beijing, China http://www.mapmatrix.com/asia/02101.pdf showing the locations of the International airport and the 2008 Beijing Olympic games site. Via http://www.mapmatrix.com/tmhtm/htmtm/02101.html

Thinking Maps Workshop : http://capital.osd.wednet.edu/information/technology/tm

'using maps for site navigation' : http://www.technorati.com/search/using%20maps%20for%20site%20navigation?start=20 (was # 40 / 1,168 posts)

Seattle911Map : http://www.seattle911.com/ Automatically refreshes every 2-3 minutes. (Real time ambulance chasing).

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Method of exercising a cat , United States Patent 5443036 : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html (God help us, every one. Western creativity is now focussed on writing patent applications, rather than inventing something innovative?) Via : http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/archives/2005/12/patent_ignoranc.html Another insane example : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html

"When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth." - Henry David Thoreau
"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. "- Mouere
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound).
"My work here is done." - Rick, on causing nausea
"Focusing upon the end result, simply doing what they can, with what they've got, from where they are, will always be enough to move heaven and earth." - TU
"While I am reading, my mind adds to my Thinking Maps all by itself, and suddenly I know more than I knew!" - 1st grade student (http://www.mapthemind.com/research/pdf/new_language.pdf )