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Monopoly Goes Google Maps; Confuses Geek Dad

All Points Blog readers got a "heads up" on this week's launch of a four-month-long online, Google Maps-based version of Monopoly co-hosted by Hasbro and Google. At launch on Wednesday there was enough demand to slow the Google servers to a crawl. Prospective players hoped to use their 3 million Monopoly starter dollars to buy any real estate they wanted on the Google Map. And as in the board game, the goal is to become the richest player and win. Wired sent it's Geek Dad blogger in for a test drive before the craziness; he didn't quite understand the big deal.

Emerging GIS Landscapes in Central Asia

The theme of the Central Asia GIS Conference held at the end of August in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic was "GIScience for Environmental and Emergency Management." More than 100 participants attended papers about spatial data infrastructures and applications ranging from environmental monitoring, risk assessment and planning for sustainability to logistics and navigation. Conference co-chair Akylbek Chymyrov from the Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience provides a event report.

Telematics Munich 2009 (November 10th-11th, Munich, Germany) Conference and Exhibition Check out the conference brochure at http://www.telematicsupdate.com/info/904. Use code "PARTNER1607" to SAVE Euro400 off passes!!!

OFF THE BEATEN PATH

Wednesday was UNESCO International Literacy Day. To celebrate and bring visibility to literacy concerns, the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) launched the "Prose Literacy Map." The application allows users to map literacy status in Canadian communities. Communities in British Columbia are shown below (click for larger image). Copyright Canadian Council on Learning, Prose Literacy Map (Ottawa:2009). Used with permission.

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