Google raised the bar again on easy "location intelligence" apps on the web when it introduced "my maps". So much of the information we interact with has a geographic or location component and navigating and exploring this graphically is much more compelling than traditional approaches. I liked these examples:
Where programing languages were invented (with colour coded flags for each "major epoch" of evolution!)
Famous Movies shot in the UK (the locations of everything from Tomb Raider to the Hunt for red October)
Magellan's voyage round the world (interesting use of line thickness to highlight additional information)
Our Earth as art (Cool sat pics!)
We'll be exploring the use of this to support our TrekChina initiative later in the year.
