Monday, May 25, 2009

Google's Map the Fallen -- Memorial Day '09

A software developer (Sean) at Google has unveiled a terrific device this Memorial Day our readers will be interested in.

The application weds several of the source databases we at the Portal use for our research and has amped them up within the Google Earth platform to provide a comprehensive tool with which to pay individual respects to our fallen heroes.

CNN previewed the application in this morning's broadcast:



You'll need to download Google Earth which is available at MapTheFallen.org.

We're busily trying it out for ouselves and it's pretty spectacular. We'll be putting it on the sidebar of The Ledger as well as here and featuring it on the Portal's webpage.

As a postscript: we're long overdue explaining the lack of activity here and at the Portal, but will get around to it shortly.

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