Update: Show you Know Bing Maps - and Win Prizes!

Update: Bing Maps Blog let’s folks know about the contest today.

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CrisisCamp Boston Coverage in Boston Globe

Haiwatha Bray reviews the event - among those quoted: MetaCarta’s Chris Schmidt.

- Boston Globe

Put Yourself on the Google Protest Map Against Turkish Internet Censorship

The goal is assembling 1 billion “people” on the Google Map at Taksim Square in Istanbul. The gathering will then move, pixel by pixel to the parliament building in Ankara to protest restrictions on accessing sites such as youtube, lasf.fm and Google Pages.

The virtual protest uses a Google Docs (looks like My Maps to me here) to create and move individual people, that is markers, on the map. Those outside Turkey are invited to join the protest.

- ReadWriteWeb

Connected Nation CEO on GIS Use in Broadband Mapping

The Hill interviews Brian Mefford, CEO of Connected Nation, the organization that thus far has receive the most funds for the mapping phase of the broadband stimulus. He goes on about how his organization gets “rag tag” (my term) data from the carriers about their service areas and then puts it all in GIS format that is automatically updated.

Waze Partners in Latin America

Waze has entered its first partnership in a series of international partnerships with Location World, an LBS company in Latin America, which will introduce crowdsourced maps to that geography.

In the partnership, waze will use location world’s maps and in return waze will provide location world with real-time crowdsourced map updates and real-time traffic information.

- press release