Unrest in the Arab World on Google Maps

CNN has created a time-line and Google Map of the unrest sparked by the Arab Spring.



CNN's Unrest in the Arab World allows you to click on individual countries and read an overview of events since the unrest began earlier this year. The time-line presents a chronology of the events from the anti-government protests that started in December in Tunisia up until current events.





Mibazaar's Middle East Protest Tweets Map is a little more immediate. This map lets you read the latest Tweets posted from Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia.



You can select to view the latest Tweets from the individual countries and sit back and watch as the latest Twitter messages from that country are shown on a Google Map.



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Crisis Mapping the Libyan Civil War

Libya Crisis Map

The UN OCHA’s Information Management unit in Geneva has asked the CrisisMappers Standby Task Force to provide a live map of reports of the current crisis in Libya generated from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and mainstream media sources.

The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force was established in response to the Haiti earthquake. The Task Force partners include CrisisMappers, CrisisCommons, Humanity Road, ICT4Peace, Open Street Map and MapAction.

The Libya Crisis Map uses the Ushahidi crowdsourced crisis reporting system to map the latest news from Libya, as gleaned from social media and traditional news sources. The map has also pulled in the data collected by Arasmus, who has been using Google My Maps to map Twitter reports from Libya.

If you want to learn more about CrisisMappers the Standby Task Force blog is very informative.

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Mapping the Libyan Protests

Two Google Maps of the Libyan protests have been receiving a lot of press in the last few days.

Twitter user @Arasmus has put together a Google My Map called
Mapping Violence Against Pro-Democracy Protests in Libya.



The map has been created by compiling reports from trusted accounts on Twitter. Arasmus says that each posting on the map is considered carefully before it is mapped.

Arasmus seems to be working very hard to keep the map up-to-date and has been assiduously adding the latest news to the map for over a week now.

Mibazaar's Middle East Protest Map lets you view the latest Twitter messages from the Middle East.



The map animates between the latest messages to be posted to Twitter from the Middle East. It is possible to view Tweets from the entire region or to select to view only Tweets from Bahrain, Egypt, Libya or Iran.

The Tweets are displayed at geotagged locations on the map at an interval of 5 seconds so the map provides an impressive means to view real-time updates across Libya.

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Google Maps mashups for Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Qatar & Egypt

StreetsOfIran.com (Iran)

Explore the colorful painted murals throughout the streets of Tehran, Iran with this fantastic photo mashup of Flickr images. [via]
Iran Google Maps Satellite Sights
Wikimapia: Iran

Hurghada-Information.com (Coastal Egypt):

The Egyptian city of Hurghada lies on the Red Sea Coast in Egypt. This mashup features a great business directory for this city to find things like hotels, restaurants, coffee houses and doctors. Zoom in close enough and the creators have even labeled streets. Click "full screen map" to see the great Google Maps UI that has been created to let you explore Hurghada.
Egypt Google Maps Satellite Sights
Wikimapia: Egypt

DohaMap.info (Qatar):

DohaMap.info has been updated to include street names and many, many points of interest for the city of Doha in Qatar.
Qatar Google Maps Satellite Sights
Wikimapia: Qatar

Blogging Beirut Maps (Lebanon):

BloggingBeirut.com introduces this new map which plots locations of everything Beirut (photos, hikes, businesses etc..) More information about these maps can be found here..
Lebanon Google Maps Satellite Sights
Wikimapia: Lebanon

Museums in Libya - More details about this museum map can be found here..
Libya Google Maps Satellite Sights
Wikimapia: Lebanon

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