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At PyCon Indonesia, I spoke about a project we worked on with the World Mosquito Program. The World Mosquito Program (WMP) modifies mosquitoes with a bacteria – Wolbachia. This reduces their ability to carry deadly viruses. (It makes me perversely happy that we’re infecting mosquitoes now 😉.) Modifying mosquitoes is an expensive process. With a limited set of “good mosquitoes”, it is critical to find the best release points that will help them replicate rapidly. ...

Chennai on Google Earth in high resolution. Mylapore and other areas near the coast are not yet in hi-res, though.

Google Maps gets Edwin Soto out of a traffic violation. He was able to use his laptop and wi-fi connection at the court to show the judge that Cathedral Parkway, where he ran a red light, was a two-way street and not a one-way as the cop indicated.

Google Earth released. It’s free. Related links: Google Earth Hacks Comments S Anand 1 Jul 2005 12:13 pm: It shows my house. Ram 1 Jul 2005 4:16 pm: At my first sight i thought that this picture was taken from simsity game.I coudn’t imagine that this picture from Google maps are real !!! S Anand 4 Jul 2005 5:00 am: It gets better than SimCity. You can tilt the view of a city and fly by the skyline on Google Earth.

Google Earth = Google + Keyhole.

Surprises lurk in satellite maps. Like the tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, an erupted volcano, bombing at Baghdad, etc.

Google sightseeing. See the US through Google Maps satellite images. Comments S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:00 am: Also check out the Googlemaps tag on Flickr S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:12 am: and the Memory maps

Blue marble. NASA’s incredibly detailed pictures of earth. Downloadable.

Kumbha Mela from space. If they can do this for free, I suppose Frederick Forsyth’s and Tom Clancy’s description of satellites catching individual’s faces can’t be far from the truth. They’ve got a pretty good gallery.