Tunisian Treasure Prison Map

The first project is the brave, superb Tunisian Prison Map by Sami Ben Gharbia.

Sami made a Tunisian Prison Map, which is madeup using a Google Maps API + GMapEZ + video YouTube + flash animations + the Yahoo Y !Q Beta. [Hat tip: Rachel]

Link to the map: http://www.kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap

Link to the related article in French: http://www.kitab.nl/2006/09/24/tunisian-prisons-map/

Link to the related article in Arabic: http://www.kitab.nl/2006/09/25/ar-tunisian-prisons-map/

Nakba Destroyed Villages

The second inspiring project comes from www.palestineremembered.com.

Salah Mansour, the www.palestineremembered.com webmaster is working on a comprehensive project to bring the Nakba (more here and here) online. He is integrating the Google Earth Maps into palestineremembered database, and he is using Dr. Salman Abu Sitti’s Atlas of Palestine as one of their sources.

Soon we will have all the land marks presented and one can see where his/her original town or village in Palestine is.

If you have Google Earth you can download the layer from here and use it to see the destroyed and existing Palestinian Villages. The layer has all of the destroyed Palestinian villages and towns in 1948. This is a big database that shows the site of each village and directs you to a website that talks about each village in detail.

You can download the attachment from: http://bbs.keyhole.com/…/

All what you have to do next (if you have Google Earth installed) is to start Google Earth and then double click the file you downloaded, and there you go…