links for 2009-07-30

July 30, 2009 Stefan Geens

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Adds New Data to Google Earth Showing Twice As Many Destroyed Villages in Darfur

Crisis in Darfur Google Earth layer gets updated, with twice the data re destroyed villages, before and after images
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New 'crisis satellites' launched

UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites launched, will quickly image natural disasters

Notes on the political, social and scientific impact of networked digital maps and geospatial imagery, with a special focus on Google Earth.