When I was a newbie in the industry the "big news" was a utility switching from one vendor to another. Smallworld wins were a big deal, for example and press announcements the way to tell the story. Now the turf is the Web and Microsoft is touting, via blog (and one PR), switching Yellowbook off MapQuest onto Virtual Earth and Windermere's real estate tool Property Point 3 moving off an ESRI/Google solution onto the platform. I'm guessing, but don't really know that the dollars were much bigger back in the "utility flip" days.

- Virtual Earth/Live Maps Blog

This time it's MAPSource, which had its big store in appropriately named, Town 'N Country FL. The dealer filed for bankruptcy Jan. 28, three months after its three stores and printing plant closed.

Ok, I think we get that print map stores are going out of business. This is the last such story I'll cite.

- Carollwood News and Tribune