Bits about maps, urban art, European cities and civic sites

Place bloggers can now personalise Google maps and incorporate them in their blog. Annotations, images or videos can be added to highlight places (video). Endless widgets can be added such as 'topographic elevation contours' etc.
The possibilities to mark significant places exist for environmental bloggers (note destruction, damaged trees etc). For renters, flats could be marked with price, and dis/advantages to provide counter market information to gain insights into livable habitats.

Barcelona Street Art presents urban art: graffiti,stencils and stickers of that city.

The Academy of Urbanism has added Barcelona together with Amsterdam and Berlin on their shortlist for The European City of the Year in 2008.

In Linz, Ars Electronica arranges an aerial photography on, September 8, 2007. Participants of the event and the city will be the installation for the shots from above.

Developers from My Society build open source websites “which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives “. One of the projects is Fix My Street where you enter the civic problem and it is then redirected to the council/s to be fixed. Wish it would say on the front page for what regions the site operates. Great idea, every place should get one.

The Center for Neighborhood Technology has many sustainability resources to guide urban communities.

There is also a meet up site by cities and countries
Image: Mural, Berlin