The Iraq Museum on Street View

Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad is now on Street View.



Google LatLong has a nice post on how Google collected the imagery for this latest addition to Google Maps, which included inventing the 'Street View Trolley'.



As well as collecting Street Views of the interior of the museum Google also managed to capture close-up 360-degree views of individual artifacts, a selection of which can be seen on the Antiquities page of the Iraq Museum website.



A neat addition to the Street View controls on Google Maps allows allows the user to navigate between the 1st and 2nd floor of the museum. So Street View now goes upstairs as well as to Iraq!



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Iraq IED Attacks on Google Maps

BOOMsys

The rather unfortunately named BOOMsys is a Google Map of improvised explosive device incidents in Iraq.

BOOMsys actually stands for Basic Ordnance Observational Management System and they have created a very impressive map displaying all the improvised explosive device incidents in Iraq in 2006. The map features an animation control that allows you to view the data over the full year.

As well as the animation controls BOOMsys includes a calendar navigation control that allows you to view the incidents for any month, week or individual day. The size of the polygons shown on the map reflects the number of incidents recorded at that location.

Hat-tip: Street View Funny

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The Iraqi Elections on Google Maps

Aljazeera Iraq Elections 2010 Map

Aljazeera are using Google Maps to geo-tag their coverage of the 2010 Iraq elections. Articles on the site concerning the election are linked to on the map with yellow map markers.

If you click on any of the markers an information window opens containing a link to the story on the Aljazeera website. The map provides a useful resource for anyone who wants to find Aljazeera stories pertaining to a particular location in Iraq.

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